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The Taiga Syndrome
A General Fiction Novel by Cristina Rivera Garza
Subgenres:
- Fairy Tale Retelling,
- Surrealist Fiction,
- Literary Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Fairy tale motifs twisted into noir detective journeys
- Snowbound forests where language and meaning slip away
- Stories exploring the wild edges of love and abandonment
A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth.
A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down—that she wants to be found.
He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation betrays both sense and one's senses.
Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective's quest into a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of Capitalism—accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty—though the lessons of her journey are more experiential than moral: that just as love can fly away, sometimes unloving flies away as well.
That sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.
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