Eleven Minutes: A NovelA new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist 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. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops 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. In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light." |
Contents
Section 19 | 135 |
Section 20 | 141 |
Section 21 | 153 |
Section 22 | 167 |
Section 23 | 175 |
Section 24 | 191 |
Section 25 | 199 |
Section 26 | 207 |
Section 9 | 49 |
Section 10 | 57 |
Section 11 | 63 |
Section 12 | 75 |
Section 13 | 79 |
Section 14 | 85 |
Section 15 | 91 |
Section 16 | 115 |
Section 17 | 117 |
Section 18 | 121 |
Section 27 | 217 |
Section 28 | 227 |
Section 29 | 233 |
Section 30 | 237 |
Section 31 | 245 |
Section 32 | 265 |
Section 33 | 271 |
Section 34 | 275 |