While she endures one disappointment after another with the boys she meets, she eventually grasps the reality that true love and sexual enjoyment are two distinct states. The author describes an innocent girl, Maria, who imagines a number of fantasy relationships with boys who go to school with her. The version of the book being used for this guide is the HarperOne 2021 English language edition. The author uses the term “prostitute” this guide replaces that term when not in quotes with “sex worker.” While it contains three erotically described sexual encounters, the book does not include vulgar language or epithets. The book contains frank discussions of the institution and history of sex work.
Her plans are interrupted by Ralf Hart, a famous artist whom she tries desperately not to love. Maria hardens her heart against feeling any affection for her clients and saves her money for her return to Brazil. The narrative concerns the maturing of a beautiful, highly intelligent young Brazilian woman, Maria, who stumbles onto the opportunity to travel to Switzerland as a dancer but ends up as well-paid sex worker. Hearing the stories of sex workers in Switzerland and recognizing touchstones in his own journey of understanding sexuality helped the author determine the course of the narrative and the truths he wanted the novel to express. Eleven Minutes was a long-term project for Coelho, who experienced a number of serendipitous events propelling him into writing a book about sex workers. He has also written The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die, Brida and The Devil and Miss Prym.When first released in 2003, Eleven Minutes by the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho was the year’s number one international bestselling book, far outpacing the number two bestseller, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist and lyricist. She finds herself pitted against her own walls, the walls she built up against love, her desire for sexual pleasure solely for the sake of exploring her body, and her gradually increasing feelings for a man who may mean much, much more to her than can possibly be fair. When she meets a handsome young painter, her disillusionment undergoes a severe test. She continues to be repulsed with love further and further, but gains a fascination for sex. A chance meeting takes her to Geneva, where her dreams of fame and fortune are dashed to the ground and she is forced to make a living as a prostitute.
She feels she will never find true love, and believes love only exists to make one suffer. Maria is a young girl from Brazil, disillusioned with love early in her life. Eleven Minutes is a bestselling contemporary novel by Paulo Coelho.
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