| Title | : | Eleven Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Paulo Coelho |
| Release | : | 2009-10-13 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Historical Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Erotica, Health, Mind & Body, Literary Fiction, Self-Improvement, Short Stories, Classics, Religious Fiction, Literary Anthologies, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Love & Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Psychology |
| Size | : | 2081261 |
| “One of Coelho’s strongest.”—Kirkus Reviews “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.”—Entertainment Weekly From the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons. Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria must choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of true love. “Sensual . . . [An] adults-only fairly tale.”—Washington Post “[This] Brazilian wizard makes books disappear from stores.”—The New York Times |
