num_pages: 82
description: 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 downthat 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 ones senses. Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detectives quest into a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of Capitalismaccumulation and expulsion corruption and crueltythough 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: English
title: The Taiga Syndrome
publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project