In Pia Pera's Lo's Diary, we have the true Lolita, the other Lolita: malicious, stripped bare, ingenious, already able to grant her sexual favours but undetermined about when to do so. She can change from an icicle to a hilarious comedian, finally moving us to tears. She is a maturing young woman, seen through the eyes of another woman. Now the perspective of the teenager's psyche is brought into focus through the new feminist consciousness of the last 30 years. The author, Pia Pera, a brilliant contemporary writer from Italy, thoroughly versed in the fiction and psychology of our generation, fives us another side of the Lolita conundrum, a new meaning to the universal phrase, "Lolita".