<p>A los dieciséis años se tienen pocas cosas: un cuerpo que provoca perplejidades, un espejo, un diario. Y muchas ganas de experimentar con la nostalgia de lo nunca probado: el amor. Más audaz que Lolita, más actual que Bonjour tristesse, Los Cien golpes es el relato estremecedor de una iniciación amorosa en las profundidades de una sociedad sexofóbica. Con precisión de entomólogo, Melissa P. describe sus encuentros sexuales, que empiezan con la acostumbrada decepción frente al gallito mediterráneo y terminan en orgías con desconocidos, sado-masoquismo y experiencias revulsivas. Frente a sus padres, con quienes tiene una relación superficial, sigue siendo la princesita que se cepilla el pelo cien veces antes de irse a dormir. Para sí misma, es la mujer que ningún hombre será capaz de descubrir.</p>

Los Cien Golpes (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

MELISSA P.

Genre Fiction

Rayo

Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dantesque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa’s secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries. Told with disarming candour, Melissa P.’s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating."It is easy to see why it was a massive bestseller in Italy…clever, dark, gothic-style, twenty-first century fairy tale." —The Barcelona Review"Melissa tells herself no fairy tales—and therein lies the odd, potent purity of these pages." —Publishers Weekly"A book that has had a wallop of an impact…readers have simply devoured it." —The New York Times

100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Bolinda Audio

One very hot Italian summer, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and writes in her diary: 'I want love. I want to feel my heart melt. I want to sink into a river of passion.' As the summer unfolds, she follows her desires wherever they lead her, often into the arms of men who set her world on fire. She is thrilled to discover the sexual power she wields. And yet, will any of these passionate encounters lead to the love she longs for?

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

Profile Books, Ltd.

One very hot Italian summer, a schoolgirl sits alone in her bedroom, staring at posters of Marlene Dietrich and listening to classical music. She strips before her mirror, examining her adolescent body pleasurably, yet without desire. She writes: 'I want love, diary. I want to feel my heart melt, to see the stalactites of my ice shatter and sink in the river of passion, of beauty'. The narrator searches for love but the men she meets only want sex. With the pain of unrequited love comes the excitement caused by her discovery of the sexual power she has over men (and other women). This diary of a teenage girl's sex life is a work of deceptive innocence. Influenced by Nabokov and Anais Nin, it is both erotic and literary. When the book was first published, it was assumed that this could not be the work of a teenager. In fact it is the first novel of a young writer of great literary talent.

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The Scent of Your Breath

Contemporary

<p>A breathless autobiographical novel from the author of 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed. Melissa, the 19-year-old protagonist, is living with Thomas, a young man she loves helplessly. Thomas's casual friendship with Viola prompts doubts about his fidelity that gradually lead to paranoia. Written as a confessional letter to her mother, the story is one of dark obsession, violent lust, and soul-destroying talent. A novel that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy and delves deep into the disturbing yet familiar mind of a teenage girl. Description in Spanish: “Un pasaje de ida", le pide al empleado de la agencia de viajes. Melissa es una muchacha en fuga. De la tierra que la vio nacer, de una familia cariñosa pero despiadada, de un hombre que la ha desenmascarado. De un juego imposible de ganar hacia un futuro que promete acogerla sin hacer demasiadas preguntas. Al principio, Melissa consigue encerrar bajo llave a aquel demonio interior que ha dominado sus palabras, sus gestos, sus pensamientos desde que era una niña. Pero pronto se da cuenta de que solo ha ganado una de las tantas batallas contra su propia naturaleza oscura. La guerra es larga. En poco tiempo, de hecho, una simple sospecha se transforma en una obsesión, en celos ciegos que amenazan destruir todo aquello por lo que ha luchado tan duramente. ¿Quién es Viola? ¿Qué son esas sombras que le susurran al oído? ¿Cómo interpretar esas terroríficas visiones nocturnas, aquella libélula que parece espiar cada uno de sus movimientos? Y su historia de amor, ¿está verdaderamente destinada a morir? Visceral y romántica, onírica y sensual, Tu aliento es una novela extrema y preciosa, donde la frontera entre realidad y fantasía se difumina página tras página, revelando una escritora única, de gran talento y enorme coraje.</p>

Tu aliento (The Scent of Your Breath) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Alfaguara / SUMA

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Los Cien Golpes (Spanish Edition)

100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

The Scent of Your Breath

Tu aliento (The Scent of Your Breath) (Spanish Edition)