{"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.","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942855377127,"sku":"9780997366679","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_70472174-8d96-41fd-83e6-c461d34710f1.jpg?v=1775271083","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-taiga-syndrome","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}