{"product_id":"9780997366679","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Cristina Rivera Garza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894786810068,"sku":"9780997366679","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_df2dacf8-08a6-43df-ac38-d0f573ecebf7.jpg?v=1693588100","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780997366679","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}