Eleven Minutes

The new 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.