Sad Sister is the semi- autobiographical story of a sadomasochistic love triangle between university students Florence and Nathalie, and their professor J.P. - an affair that goes horribly awry. Smart and meditative, steamy and disturbing, Sad Sister is perhaps the most significant work of French erotica since The Story of O.

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.