Eleven Minutes: A Novel
"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
Paulo Coelho is an international bestselling author whose books--The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and The Fifth Mountain-have sold more than 23 million copies in 117 countries and have been translated into 41 languages.
Author: Paulo Coelho
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 135mm x 205mm, 245 g
Published: 2021, HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
"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
Paulo Coelho is an international bestselling author whose books--The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and The Fifth Mountain-have sold more than 23 million copies in 117 countries and have been translated into 41 languages.