TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coelho, Paulo
AU  - Costa, Margaret Jull 
TI  - Eleven minutes 
SN  - 9780060589288
AV  - PQ9698.13.O3546 O5913 2004
CY  - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Brazilians
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - Geneva
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
N2  - 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
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