GRUPO PLANETA - THE AGES OF LULU | POCKET EDITION

A long love story that, like any love and sex story that refuses to give up, becomes more complex and enveloping.

Synopsis of The Ages of Lulu:

Still immersed in the fears of a childhood devoid of affection, fifteen-year-old Lulu succumbs to the attraction exerted on her by a young man, a family friend whom she had vaguely desired until then. After this first experience, Lulu, eternally a child, nurtures for years, alone, the ghost of that man who eventually accepts the challenge of indefinitely prolonging, in their peculiar sexual relationship, the love game of childhood. He creates for herself a world apart, a private universe where time loses its value.

But the risky spell of living outside of reality is abruptly broken one day, when Lulú, now thirty years old, plunges, defenseless but feverishly, into the hell of dangerous desires.

• Number of pages: 288

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE AGES OF LULU

Almudena Grandes (Madrid, 1960) rose to fame in 1989 with The Ages of Lulu, winner of the 11th La Sonrisa Vertical Prize. Since then, she has consistently received critical and reader acclaim. Her novels I'll Call You Friday, Malena Is a Tango Name, Atlas of Human Geography, Difficult Airs, Cardboard Castles, The Frozen Heart, and Kisses on Bread, along with the short story collections Models of Woman and Stations of Way, have made her one of the most established and internationally renowned names in contemporary Spanish literature. Several of her works have been adapted for film, and have received, among others, the Lara Foundation Prize, the Madrid and Seville Booksellers' Prizes, the Rapallo Carige, and the Prix Méditerranée. In 2010 she published Inés y la alegría (Madrid Critics' Prize, the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize), the first title in the series Episodes of an Endless War, followed by The Reader of Jules Verne (2012), The Three Weddings of Manolita (2014) and The Patients of Doctor García (2017).

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