Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho's novel of a young Brazilian woman who moves to Geneva and becomes a prostitute, in the Harper Perennial paperback.
Paulo Coelho published Eleven Minutes in 2003. It follows Maria, a girl from a remote Brazilian village whose first brushes with love leave her heartbroken. She travels to Geneva hoping for fame and money, ends up working as a prostitute, and slowly reworks her bleak view of love after meeting a young painter. Margaret Jull Costa translated this Harper Perennial edition into English.
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