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Eleven Minutes

  • Paulo Coelho

3.80

25 ratings

Eleven Minutes is 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. 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.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Genres

  • Brazilians
  • Love
  • Prostitutes
  • Sex
  • Fiction
  • Romance fiction
  • Fiction, visionary & metaphysical
  • Brazil, fiction
  • Love stories
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About the author

  • Paulo Coelho

    born 24 August 1947

    3.72

    546 ratings · 755 works

Editions

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    Harper Perennial

    March 29, 2005

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins, TheBookPeople

    2003

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    2006

  • Edition cover

    1st U.S. ed.

    HarperCollins Publishers

    2004

Edition cover

Harper Collins

2003

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    March 30, 2004

  • Edition cover

    1 edition

    HarperCollins

    March 30, 2004

  • Edition cover

    Harper Collins

    2003

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    August 18, 2003

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers

    January 2009

  • Edition cover

    New Ed edition

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    August 18, 2003

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    March 29, 2005

  • Edition cover

    Thorsons

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    Airport Ed edition

    HarperCollins

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers

    January 2009

  • Edition cover

    Thorsons

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins Publishers Australia

    2003

  • Edition cover

    Thorsons

    June 7, 2004

  • Edition cover

    Thorsons

    June 7, 2004