Sad tiger / Neige Sinno ; translated by Natasha Lehrer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinno, Neige, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Lehrer, Natasha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Triste tigre. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rape victims--Fiction.

Rape victims.

Sinno, Neige, 1977---Fiction.

Sinno, Neige.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

"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. Through 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2023 by P.O.L. Editeur, Paris, France"-- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221).

Other Format:

Online version: Sinno, Niege, 1977- Triste tigre. English Sad tiger

ISBN:

9781644214671

1644214679

OCLC:

1443717459

Publisher Number:

90101793489