Dolorosa Soror

First published in France 1996, Dolorosa Soror [Sad Sister], a novel Le Monde called "luminously savage in its beauty," turned its author, Florence Dugas, into an overnight sensation and focused popular attention on the rebirth of French erotica. The semi- autobiographical story of a sado-masochistic love triangle (between two university students, Florence and Nathalie, and a professor, J.P.) gone awry, Dolorosa Soror is the most significant book since Story of O. Compelling descriptions of explicit sex are integrated into a narrative that is smart, meditative, and uncompromising.