Author | Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
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Working title | Vista de amanecer en el trópico |
Translator | Donald Gardner Suzanne Jill Levine |
Language | Cuban Spanish |
Set in | Havana in 1958 |
Publisher | Seix Barral |
Publication date | 1967 |
Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 1971 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 451 |
OCLC | 1210202 |
LC Class | PQ7389.C233 T7 |
Tres tristes tigres (Spanish: Tres tristes tigres, lit. 'Three Sad Tigers'), abbreviated as TTT,[1] is the debut novel by Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante.[2][3][4] The novel was first published in Spain in 1967. It was later translated into English by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine and published in 1971 as Three Trapped Tigers.
It is considered a classic of the Latin American Boom.[5][6] It won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1970.[7]