The bestselling novel, now in ebook, 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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Пауло Коэльо. Eleven Minutes
Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Poem
Afterword
The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. Paulo Coeiho
The Fifth Mountain. Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage. Paulo Coelho
The Valkyries. Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die. Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym. Paulo Coelho
Manual of the Warrior of Light. Paulo Coelho
About the Author
Also by Paulo Coelho
Copyright
About the Publisher
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TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY MARGARET JULL COSTA
This book is dedicated to you, Maurice Gravelines. I have a duty to you, your wife and grand-daughter and to myself to talk about the things that concern me and not only about what everyone would like to hear. Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
