After we left scratching their heads - if we did it - on our feelings for Sarajevo, at last someone who tells us that feelings towards the rest of the world the people of Sarajevo is measured in years with death, mortification and lies
There are many things in these pages, we will noise. There will bother to find out how really worth (worth it, but not much) our humanitarian aid; infamy which can masquerade with the magnanimous and disconsolate statements that "all parties are equally responsible"; how little eccentric and primitive and reassuringly is Sarajevo and its people, and how much closer and similar to us (like, at least, what we rejoice and we delude ourselves to be); how little, finally, there is expected of us - in a sense, Sarajevo has abandoned us to our fate. Newspaper and daily journal, Dizdarević's writings torment especially for the obsessive repetition of the report of a life and death and the end of everything, where every day is exactly the same but worse, a thousand times you write the fatal words , ever again, to rewrite them again even more fatal and final.On the other hand, Dizdarević shows, day after day, the face that no one wants to see of this dirty war: that there is a minority of bandits and bullies, and a lot of innocent people, decimated and forced to fall under the fire of snipers, but attached to their city and to civilian life, the memory of another way of being of the things that has been and will return.If and when he returns, it should be a mirror in which everyone will look at him. This resistance dry and shiny, without hope and without prayers, may bother us, here in our hall of mirrors pimps. (Adriano Sofri)

At just fifteen years old, Lulu, a "round, hungry little girl," finds that her erotic cravings are already powerfully established when she is seduced by a family friend, Pablo, twelve years her senior. This initial encounter incites the violent power play that drives an adult Lulu through a series of increasingly titillating sexual exploits. Always fascinated by the thin line separating decency and morality from perversion, Lulu gains the courage to explore the darker side of her carnal desires—but as her forays become increasingly desperate, the world of illicit and dangerous sex threatens to engulf her completely.
A groundbreaking novel of sexual exploration, The Ages of Lulu sparked international controversy and was an overnight sensation when it was first published in Spain fifteen years ago. It won the Sonrisa Vertical Prize for erotic fiction, and was made into a film starring Javier Bardem.