{"product_id":"sad-tiger-isbn-9781644214671","title":"Sad Tiger","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger, \u003c\/i\u003ea book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Reading \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to see, to really see, what it means to be a child abused by an adult, for years. Everyone should read it.” —Annie Ernaux\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE, FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At 19, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the construction of a fragmented narrative, Sinno explores the different facets of memory—her own, her mother’s, as well as her abusive stepfather’s; and of abuse itself in all its monstrosity and banality. Her account is woven together with a close reading of literary works by Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Christine Angot, and Virginie Despentes among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e—the title inspired by William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”—is a literary exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. In this extraordinary book there is an abiding concern: how to protect others from what the author herself endured? In the midst of so much darkness, an answer reads crystal clear: by speaking up and asking questions. A striking, shocking, and necessary masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the European Strega Prize, 2024\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Prix Femina, 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Goncourt des Lycéens, 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the US and UK Goncourt Prizes, 2024\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Inrockuptibles Prize, 2023\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Medicis Prize, 2023\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Decembre Prize, 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Goncourt Prizes in Belgium, Slovakia, India, Turkey, Tunisia, and South Korea, 2023“Reading \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to see, to really see, what it means to be a child abused by an adult, for years. Everyone should read it. Especially teenagers.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Annie Ernaux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The best book I've read for a very long time. . . . It's by a writer called Neige Sinno and it completely changes all the rules of writing.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e, speaking to the Stockholm Libraries PLAY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] achingly vivid, cerebral memoir of her abuse and its long aftermath...... Close-reading her own shards of memory alongside these texts, Sinno contends with both the power and the inevitable impotence of writing, particularly about abuse.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Christensen, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sinno’s prose is equal parts raw and lucid, and it’s enriched by fascinating readings of the sexual abuse depicted in Lolita and other works of literature. This is brilliant.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"One of the things that’s so brilliant about this book is how Sinno takes a highly unique and harrowing experience and transforms it, through the magic of her thought, into a portal to understanding so many other things about power, delusion, childhood, confession, etc etc etc. It is a very intense read, and a very worthy one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Catherine Lacey, Substack\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive accomplishment, as much a memoir as it is literary scholarship. This is a smart interrogation of the self and of abuse that expands beyond Sinno’s life to major literary figures — like Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Vladimir Nabokov — who have also reckoned with these ideas in their work.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eIsle McElroy, \u003ci\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A truly extraordinary book about childhood trauma and its legacies – intellectual, physical, familial, emotional. But moreover, perhaps, and most powerfully, it is a book about how and why we speak or stay silent, tell and remake stories, use particular words that may or may not be enough, and turn to literature and culture to learn how to narrate, and understand, our own lives anew. Wise, true, profound and generous\"\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eEmily La Barge, \u003ci\u003eThe Nerve\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"They are stories that disempower perpetrators, explore a kind of cultural justice that goes beyond the ability of courts to punish, and model how affected families might reconfigure in a post-trauma reality. This is, it seems, knowledge that could, perhaps, lead to change.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eLori O'Dea, \u003ci\u003eLiber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Sinno has compiled a precise and sweeping depiction of the harm wrought by childhood sexual abuse. . . . Sinno refuses to impose an artificial happy ending and invites the reader into the ambiguity of living with trauma. \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e extends to its reader the opportunity to witness, and to wrestle.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eMcKenzie Watson-Fore,\u003ci\u003e Full Stop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is not what you’d expect from a memoir about sexual abuse and trauma. Unlike Vanessa Springora’s 2020 international bestseller \u003ci\u003eConsent\u003c\/i\u003e, say, which was also translated by Natasha Lehrer, Sad Tiger, its title an allusion to the William Blake poem, is not a taut narrative of devastation and reclamation. At times Sinno writes with the essayistic force of Virginie Despentes’s King Kong Theory, at others with the vividness of Édouard Louis’s novels. She shares Annie Ernaux’s will to self- excavation and proclivity for experimentation. Sinno refuses to be hamstrung by genre, choosing a balletic approach, as if only a choreographed dance around her subject, again and again, will properly encapsulate its blast radius.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elias Altman, B\u003ci\u003eookforum\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This hard-to-classify work is a hybrid thing: part memoir, part cultural criticism. Sinno’s devastating subject is her rapist, and the sexual abuse that ruined her childhood. Such material would be hard to handle in any container, but Sinno’s project is especially profound (and novel) for its clear-eyed aims. At top of book, she announces a wish to understand her predator. In two meaty, devastating halves (“Portraits” and “Ghosts”) she invokes work by Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Antonin Artaud and other thinkers in attempt to understand incest as an anthropological, psychological, and interpersonal phenomenon. The result is a brilliant, generous, vulnerable act of imagination.\" \u003cb\u003e—Brittany Allen\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, L\u003c\/b\u003eitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In this award-winning translated memoir, Neige Sinno reveals sexual abuse by her stepfather in intense yet reflective candor. Even more so, it’s a heartwrenching exploration of memory, agency and how we use literature to make sense of child abuse, shame and silence.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Karla J. Strand, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMs. magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Throw yourself into the most extraordinary book of the literary season, \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e by Neige Sinno....Exceptionally intelligent and truthful, \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elle \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(France)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sinno multiplies her points of view so as not to be left alone in the face of catastrophe.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful, reflective and meditative work, impressive in its depth and mastery\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e.” \u003cbr\u003e—Télérama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book of striking intelligence and beauty.’\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Transfuge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Neige Sinno has miraculously found the right tone to give this book its unique emotion, violent and delicate at the same time, human, all too human. And a rare truthfulness too.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Le Point\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A total literary gesture, violent, humble, sensitive and of astounding intelligence. This book needs many, many readers.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eL’Obs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eYet in taking their own experiences of trauma seriously, by directing their writing and reading towards understanding and articulating it, Hood and Sinno expand the horizons of what trauma literature can be. Their books mark the arrival of two major literary talents.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conversation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEIGE SINNO \u003c\/b\u003eis a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, \u003ci\u003eLe Camion \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLa Vie des rats\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, \u003ci\u003eTriste tigre\u003c\/i\u003e, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year. It is published in English as \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e by Seven Stories Press, in a translation by Natasha Lehrer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATASHA LEHRER\u003c\/b\u003e is a prizewinning writer and translator. She writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eamong many others and translated works by Chantal Thomas, Vanessa Springora, Amin Maalouf, Victor Segalen, Robert Desnos, and Georges Bataille. In 2016 she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize for \u003ci\u003eSuite for Barbara Loden \u003c\/i\u003eby Nathalie Léger. She lives in France.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301323428069,"sku":"NP9781644214671","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644214671.jpg?v=1767736029","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sad-tiger-isbn-9781644214671","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}