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Eleven Minutes

By: Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa - translator
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Emilia Fox
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The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.

‘Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…’

So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was a fantasy. The reality – selling herself to survive – is a dehumanising grind that pushes her further away from real love, towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure.

But when her emotional barriers are tested by a handsome young painter, she must choose between the dark path she is on and risking everything to find her ‘inner light’. Can she move beyond the meeting of minds or even souls – to a place where sex itself is sacred?

A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex.

©2004 Paulo Coelho; (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers Contemporary Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Personal Development Personal Success Spirituality Romance
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its what we all go through, on the surface a simple tale-a love story, but has its basis in a stark realism

lush, sensual, life-affirming

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I couldn't put this one done.
The main character was so real, vulnerable and easy to feel what she was feeling.

A novel worth a read

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It's not so much the story but the way he tells it. Another fine novel by Paulo.

Wordsmith

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This book was both enthralling and educational and love, passion, pain and sex as well as many things in between. highly recommended

Journey into the heart of love through sex

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Easy to listen to, to the very end! Great story! Explain alot about my curiosities!

Loved it!

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