Eleven minutes
Coelho, Paulo
Eleven minutes / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa. - First U.S. edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. - 273 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
9780060589288
Prostitutes--Fiction--Brazil
Brazilians--Fiction--Switzerland --Geneva
READING IN ENGLISH
PQ9698.13.O3546 / O5913 2004
Eleven minutes / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa. - First U.S. edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. - 273 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
9780060589288
Prostitutes--Fiction--Brazil
Brazilians--Fiction--Switzerland --Geneva
READING IN ENGLISH
PQ9698.13.O3546 / O5913 2004