# The Taiga Syndrome

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- Book: [The Taiga Syndrome](https://www.bookquiver.com/cristina-rivera-garza/pl/the-taiga-syndrome) ([The Taiga Syndrome.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cristina-rivera-garza/pl/the-taiga-syndrome.md))
- Authors: [Cristina Rivera Garza](https://www.bookquiver.com/cristina-rivera-garza)
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- ISBN: 978-19-1150-868-7
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2019-10-01
- Language: pl_PL
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of The Iliac Crest, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man’s-land. A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that 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 serves to betray both sense and the senses. The stories of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective’s quest. As she enters a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of capitalism – accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty –the lessons of her journey unfold: that sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.