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The taiga syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

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The taiga syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The taiga syndrome

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1039667393

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Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

Summary

"A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female 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, 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."--Amazon.com

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