Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

Eleven Minutes is yet another great story by Paulo Coelho and one of my favourite books by Paulo Coelho. The story is a about a young girl from Brazil that gets lured to Geneva by false promises by a Swedish stranger that she meets in Brazil. Her life quickly changes and she become a dancer then a prostitute, Maria soon learns about sexual desires and needs that here clients wants from her and she becomes more interested in sex but most importantly finding here sexual desires and what she wants from it. But when meets an artist he and here take a liking for each other and Maria is faced with a ... more

Pulo Coelho is one of my favorite author. Eleven Minutes is the third book that I've read from him and is one of my collection. I find thisstory very provoking and yet very interesting. I love the fact that I have access to Maria's (the main character) diary wherein she wrotes all the things that she feels. This is a story about a young brazilian girl who got heartbroken and thought that love is awful. She set on a journey to fulfill her dreams to be famous and find fourtune but ends up working as a prostitute. Eventually, her views about love was put to the test when she mets a nice young man ... more

Paulo Coelho is a nobel laureate and his master piece the Alchemist made us expect alot from him. His new novel Eleven Minutes can be said an addition to the list of great works in the genre of novel. It is the story of a brazilian girl who wanted to be an actress and travelled to Switzerland but ended in a brothel. But here the story of heroism started when she decided to enjoy every minute of this one year stay while she is in this unknown country. She thought thet she could do anything because she has no identity or social boundary so she earned alot by being a prostitute. She also fell in ... more