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The Taiga Syndrome

The Taiga Syndrome - Paperback

by Cristina Rivera Garza
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator), Aviva Kana (Translator)Publish date:2018-10-01Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9780997366679ISBN-10:997366672UPC:9780997366679Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Hispanic & Latino, World LiteratureBook Topic:MexicoSize:7.00 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCRX8DXM4P
Fairy 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."

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9780997366679ISBN-10:997366672UPC:9780997366679Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Hispanic & Latino, World LiteratureBook Topic:MexicoSize:7.00 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCRX8DXM4P
Cristina Rivera Garza is a 2020 MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow and a finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her writing has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston. A collection of her short fiction, New and Selected Stories, will be published by Dorothy in spring 2022.

Suzanne Jill Levine has received many honors for her translations of Latin American literature. She is the author of Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (FSG) and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press). Her editions include the Penguin Paperback Classics series of Jorge Luis Borges's essays and poetry.
Aviva Kana is a scholar and literary translator. Her work focuses on Latin American literature, gender, translation, and applied linguistics. Her translations have been published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, PEN America, Latin American Literature Today, and Fiction.
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project

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Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator), Aviva Kana (Translator)

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Cristina Rivera Garza

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