{"product_id":"the-taiga-syndrome","title":"The Taiga Syndrome","description":"\u003cb\u003eFairy tale meets detective drama in this David Lynch-like novel by a writer Jonathan Lethem calls \"one of Mexico's greatest . . . we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fairy tale run amok, \u003ci\u003eThe Taiga Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\r","brand":"Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44444069593324,"sku":"9780997366679","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780997366679.jpg?v=1708845465","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/the-taiga-syndrome","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}