Tamara's review
Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author!)
Tamara's review
Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author!)
Tamara's review
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“And if nothing belongs to me, then there is no point wasting my time looking after things that aren’t mine; it’s best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life” - Maria, Eleven Minutes.
What is Love? This is the question that plagues eighteen-year-old Maria. Maria journeys from her hometown in a small poverished Brazilian village, to Rio to Geneva where instead of living out her dreams of fame and modeling she ends up working as a stripper/prostitute.
She becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." Until 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.
What is Love? This is the question that plagues eighteen-year-old Maria. Maria journeys from her hometown in a small poverished Brazilian village, to Rio to Geneva where instead of living out her dreams of fame and modeling she ends up working as a stripper/prostitute.
She becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." Until 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.
