A long love story that, like any love and sex story that refuses to stop, becomes more complex and engaging.

Synopsis of The Ages of Lulu:

Still immersed in the fears of a childhood lacking affection, Lulú, 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, Lulú, an eternal child, feeds for years, alone, the ghost of that man who ends up accepting the challenge of prolonging indefinitely, in their peculiar sexual relationship, the loving game of childhood. He creates a separate world for her, a private universe where time loses value.

But the risky spell of living outside reality is abruptly broken one day, when Lulú, now thirty years old, runs, helplessly but feverishly, 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 Lulú, winner of the 11th La Sonrisa Vertical Prize. Since then, she has been praised by readers and critics alike. Her novels I'll Call You on Friday, Malena is a Tango Name, Atlas of Human Geography, The Difficult Airs, Cardboard Castles, The Frozen Heart and Kisses on Bread, as well as the collections of short stories Models of Women and Stations of the Road, have made her one of the most established and internationally renowned names in contemporary Spanish literature. Several of her works have been adapted 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 he published Inés y la alegría (Madrid Critics' Prize, Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize), the first title in the Episodes of an Endless War series, which was followed by The Reader by Julio Verne (2012), The Three Weddings of Manolita (2014) and The Patients of Doctor García (2017).