GRUPO PLANETA - THE AGES OF LULU | POCKET EDITION

A long love story that, like any love and sex story that refuses to stop being what it is, becomes more complex and involving.

Synopsis of The Ages of Lulu:

Still mired in the fears of a childhood devoid of affection, Lulu, a fifteen-year-old girl, 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, an eternal child, nurses for years, alone, the ghost of that man who ends up accepting the challenge of prolonging indefinitely, in their peculiar sexual relationship, the love game of childhood. He creates for her a world apart, a private universe where time loses value.

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

• Number of pages: 288

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE AGES OF LULU

Almudena Grandes (Madrid, 1960) became known in 1989 with Las agencias de Lulú, winner of the 11th La Sonrisa Vertical Prize. Since then, she has received constant acclaim from readers and critics. Her novels Te llamaré Viernes (I'll Call You Friday), Malena es un nombre de tango (Malena is a Tango Name), Atlas de geografía humanos (Atlas of Human Geography), Los aires difícils (Difficult Airs), Castillos de papel (Cardboard Castles), El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart) and Los besos en el pan (Kisses on Bread), together with the short story collections Modelos de mujer (Models of a Woman) and Estaciones de paso (Stations of Passage), have made her one of the most established and internationally renowned names in contemporary Spanish literature. Several of her works have been adapted for the big screen, and have won, among others, the Fundación Lara Prize, the Madrid and Seville Booksellers' Prize, the Rapallo Carige Prize 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 El lector de Julio Verne (2012), Las tres bodas de Manolita (2014) and Los pacientes del doctor García (2017).