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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780060589288 ISBN: 0060589280 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: April 01, 2005 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: March 29, 2005 Studio: Harper Perennial Sales Rank: 14753 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Interesting In A Somewhat Morose WayAs a pretty, young teenager in Brasil, Maria, partly by accident and perhaps partly by design, gets recruited for a prostitution ring in Europe. She works in a restaurant/bar with other prostitutes, earns some money, gains some independence but feels yearnings toward greater things. She becomes torn between someone she loves and someone who offers a strange,fascinating but dangerous area of sexuality and sensation. Ultimately she must choose. The book is based on conversations Coelho had with a woman ... Read More Rating:  - Worst book I ever read!Actually, I should be changing the title of my review - I am a bookworm, and I have read tons of great books. To call this the "worst book I ever read" implies it can be compared to those other books. But one shouldn't even "compare" it to other books... it is a badly written Mills and Boons type of romance trying to be "profound" at the same time. The characters are stick figures, the setting contrived, plot nonexistent, and dialog - the pits. There are no emotions whatsoever. "Sacred sex" comes up in ... Read More Rating:  - one of the best books ever!This is a great book with everything you want. I've read some of the reviewers saying he writes too simple and therefor it is not a good book. But the simplicity is the strength of Coelho's writing. Makeing something like prostitution possible to grasp and comprahend and without laying out pages and pages of how horrible the situation is (with this I don't mean prostitution isn't a terrible thing - it truly is, just that it is nice to finally see a prostitute not as a helpless victim but just a womam trying ... Read More Rating: - feels like he's writing for young adultsThis is my second book by Paulo Coelho. I first read the Alchemist and I bought this book before I realized it was the same author. Based on reading these two books, I have to say that this guy writes as though his audience is young adults. The writing is flat and simplistic. If you like reading YA books, then you might like this. Otherwise, don't bother. Rating:  - Not my favoriteEleven Minutes is not my favorite Paulo Coelho book. This is the story about a girl who fell into prostitution because she was poor and vulnerable and like everyone else in the world, looking for a better life. She fell into the trap. I didn't think this was any enlightening story about love and intimacy, more a story simply about sex. Linda C. Wright Author One Clown Short One Clown Short Browse for similar items by category:
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