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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Levine, Suzanne Jill, translator.

Kana, Aviva, translator.

Series:

Dorothy, a publishing project ; 17

Standardized Title:

Mal de la taiga. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women detectives--Fiction.

Women detectives.

Taigas--Fiction.

Taigas.

Fairy tales--Fiction.

Fairy tales.

Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Characters in literature--Fiction.

Spanish fiction--Translations into English.

Spanish fiction.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, a Publishing project, 2018.

Language Note:

In English; translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

ISBN:

9780997366679

0997366672

OCLC:

1039667393