A long love story that, like every love and sex story that doesn't resign itself to stop, becomes more complex and engaging.

Synopsis of The Ages of Lulu:

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

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

• Number of pages: 288

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE AGES OF LULÚ

Almudena Grandes (Madrid, 1960) became known in 1989 with The Ages of Lulu, XI La Sonrisa Vertical Prize. Since then, the applause of readers and critics has not stopped accompanying her. 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, together with the volumes of short stories Models of Women and Stations of the Street, have made her one of the most consolidated names with the greatest international projection in contemporary Spanish literature. Many of her works have been made into films and have won, among others, the Lara Foundation Prize, the Madrid and Seville Booksellers Prize, the Rapallo Carige and the Prix Méditerranée. In 2010, she published Inés y la alegría (Madrid Critics' Award, Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Award, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award), the first title in the series Episodes of an Interminable War, which was followed by The Reader by Julio Verne (2012), Manolita's Three Weddings (2014), and Doctor García's Patients (2017).