Eleven Minutes
HarperCollins
The new bestselling novel now in paperback from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho author of The Alchemist A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva where she dreams of finding fame and fortune yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute In Geneva Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex Eventually 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 has to 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 sacred sex sex in the context of love A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex
HARPER COLLINS
So says Maria a young brazilian girl convinced from an aerly age that she will never find true love A change meeting in rio takes her to geneva but the glittering life she hoped for is a fantasy The reality selling herself to sruvive is a dehumanising grind that pushes her further away from real love towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure
