Eleven Minutes
The bestselling novel 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.
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