Eleven minutes / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

By:

Coelho, Paulo

Contributor(s):

Costa, Margaret Jull [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.Edition: First U.S. edition. Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN:

9780060589288

Uniform titles:

Onze minutos. English.

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PQ9698.13.O3546 O5913 2004

Summary: 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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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.