Sigrid Baffert

Hazar Tango

August 19, 2026

Novel

320 pages

130 × 210 mm

22 €

978-2-3866-9177-5

“Radeau” collection

After a period of chaos, the Usko faction seized power, addressed the depletion of fossil fuels by rationing hydrogen, and monopolized the production of seeds and seedlings. The resistance has organized, and Salem, a young botanist with photosynthetic sensitivity who dances the hazar tango in her spare time, is approached by an underground organization to carry out a delicate mission alongside a bear trainer and an old buccaneer. Part dystopia, part adventure novel, and part polar expedition, Hazar Tango draws us into a sensual and breathless pas de deux.

The author

Since the publication of her first novel, En roues libres, in 1999 by Syros, Sigrid Baffert has devoted herself to writing.
She has written some fifty works—novels, picture books, short stories, musicals, and docudramas—for all ages, some of which have received awards (the France Culture Audiobook Prize / Lire dans le noir in 2014 and 2019, the Janusz Korczak Prize in 2018, the Handi-livres Prize in 2018, the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros in 2018, the Atout Lire! Prize in 2019, and the Pépite Fiction Ados in 2024). Hazar tango is her first novel for adults. Sigrid Baffert lives in Paris.