"An eerie, slippery gem of a book." KIRKUS starred review
Rivera Garza's gorgeous, propulsive novel will haunt readers long after it's finished." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, starred review
"The contemporary Latin American detective novel is a form that uses the individual's rollicking quest as a means of resistance against repressive structures and the violences they engender. Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome, in this stellar translation by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana, gives English-language readers a lyrically luminous take on the genre while not skimping on its adventurous antics. If The Taiga Syndrome is a book of illness, it's also about exile, disappearance, borders, love, language and translation, desire, capitalism and its discontents, fairy tales, and what it means to be possessed by the madness of others and the madness of ourselves. The murmurs that haunt the detective in The Taiga Syndromeevoke the history of Mexican fiction, most notably Juan Rulfo. But this is not a religious state of purgatory. It's more like Apocalypse Now fused with the worlds of Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. In other words, there is no one writing novels as phantasmagorically exquisite as Cristina Rivera Garza's. The Taiga Syndrome, which is both quietly poetic and narratively unhinged, is a crucial addition to her distinguished oeuvre." DANIEL BORZUTZKY author of the National Book Award winning The Performance of Becoming Human.
“A Lynchian noir from one of Mexico’s best novelists tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man’s-land, weaving a mystery out of fairy tales, disaster capitalism, and shadowy afflictions.” VULTURE, "The Best New Books to Read this Fall"
Rivera Garza invokes Hansel and Gretel as she spins her marvellous, atmospheric tale.” JANE CIABATTARI, “The 10 Best Books of 2018”
