Los cien golpes

"Catherine Millet can go put her clothes on. The young Sicilian Melissa P. has become an extraordinary literary phenomenon in Italy. Melissa's diary in which this school-girl from Catania narrates her erotic experiences is outselling "Harry Potter" . . . A real literary talent."-"Les Echos""Cien Golpes" is the fictional diary of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager who embarks on a quest for love only to find intense sexual experiences. Told with frankness and lyricism, mixing the coming-of-age novel with Gothic romance, Melissa P.'s narrative is a frustrated search for love in a pornographic world.

Born in Catania, Melissa P. lives in the village of Aci Castello in Sicily. She is now 18 years old and about to leave high school.