Lit in Translation

Sad Tiger

Triste tigre

Neige Sinno (born 1977)

Translated by Natasha Lehrer

English editions

In English

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From seven to fourteen, the narrator was repeatedly raped by the man her mother lived with, in a bohemian, marginal blended family in the 1990s Alps. In 2000 they went to the police and he went to jail. Years later, without self-pity, she asks whether such things can be told and heard, reading Lolita, Virginia Woolf and other works on sexual abuse, and tries to see inside the abuser's head.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
283 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
France, 1990s
First published
2023 by P.O.L
Author's age
46 when first published
ISBN

9782818058268 (original)

9781644214671 (Seven Stories Press, United States)

9781911710202 (Seven Stories Press, United Kingdom)

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