ELEVEN MINUTES

Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer...

Another week has passed and I have read another of Paulo Coelho’s book, Eleven Minutes. This is daring novel that challenges our prejudices and opens our minds and has kept me utterly enthralled.

Eleven Minutes tells 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. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.

In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, 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.

The fact is Eleven Minutes’ Down-to-earth dialogue and detail about classy whoring has persuaded me to read this book for a second time. Actually it’s been my practice to read a book twice if I really liked it. I am also planning to buy another Paulo Coelho novel tomorrow at my local book store. The only question is which one?

So till my next post ya, its bye from Ganz.

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