Joël Dicker - O Tigre

It's 1903, in distant Siberia. A village is attacked by a colossal tiger, and the governor offers a reward to whoever can defeat the beast. Ivan Levovitch, young and inexperienced, accepts a challenge that proves terrifying, since, from a certain point onward, we lose track of who is the hunter and who is the prey.

The Tiger is Joël Dicker's first book, written at the age of nineteen and submitted to a literary competition.

The jury would later confess that they didn't even consider the manuscript, doubting that someone so young could be the author of that text.

Here, Dicker reveals an impressive ability to captivate the reader, creating a powerful narrative embodied by unforgettable characters. Indebted to Russian and English classics, The Tiger already addresses the major themes that mark the author's writing: existential dilemmas, violence, and the possibility of redemption.

Eight years after that debut, Joël Dicker won the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens with The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, which became a literary colossus and catapulted him to the podium of the most widely read writers today.