Eleven minutes : a novel
Paulo Coelho.
- New York : Harper-Collins Publisher, c2004.
- 273 pages ; 21 cm.
Eleven minutes tell the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazillian 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 terrible thing that will make you suffer. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute.