Lila Says - Hardcover

Chimo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684836033 ISBN 13: 9780684836034

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1999

Synopsis

A pseudonymous novella chronicles the sexual escapades of two teenagers, a white girl and a Black boy, in a Parisian ghetto

About this title

Review:

· ‘Beautiful, shocking and very sexy’ Alain de Botton

· ‘A powerful, highly erotic and beautifully written book’ Maxim

· ‘A beautifully written love story and, I believe, a classic.’ Nigel Slater

From the Back Cover:

From their first meeting, the elusive sixteen-year-old Lila seduces him with words. Chimo is shocked, he's ravished, he's inspired. An existence mired by hopelessness seems suddenly redeemable. But are her graphic lyrical outpourings the products of fantasy or of experience? And what dangers lie ahead if Lila's words become reality?

Lila Says is the journal of Chimo, a half-educated Arab immigrant living in a squalid concrete jungle on the outskirts of Paris. Here he records with disarming simplicity and raw immediacy his relationship with the blonde 'angel'. His narrative brims with suppressed passion and builds relentlessly, breathlessly, towards the shock of tragedy. With bitter wit and street-level bluntness, Chimo opens a window on to the realities of life for contemporary urban teenagers. At the same time he offers a stunning, erotic love story that could become a literary classic. Through the mysterious alchemy of true creativity, Lila Says shows its readers the beauty, idealism, even romance that can be found in the most dismal and unlikely of settings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684836033
• ISBN 13: 9780684836034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128