Sad Tiger

"Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE, FINALIST Sad Tiger 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. Sad Tiger―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. Winner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023Winner of the European Strega Prize, 2024 Winner of the Prix Femina, 2023Winner of the Goncourt des Lycéens, 2023 Winner of the US and UK Goncourt Prizes, 2024Winner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023 Winner of the Inrockuptibles Prize, 2023Shortlisted for the Medicis Prize, 2023 Shortlisted for the Decembre Prize, 2023 Winner of the Goncourt Prizes in Belgium, Slovakia, India, Turkey, Tunisia, and South Korea, 2023"