A startlingly original work by a contemporary Mexican master, The Taiga Syndrome evokes both the Latin American detective novel and The Brothers Grimm as it follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective searching for a wife and her lover who have fled to the far reaches of the earth.
Über den Autor Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome, The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir, Liliana's Invincible Summer, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.