It's a novel by Paulo Coelho
Today is Valentine's Day so let's talk about Eleven Minutes which is all about sex & love
When I was visiting friends we all sat down and had a chat. Then we talked about books and my friend told me, that 11 Minutes by Paulo Coelho is really good. So I decided to buy this book. I bought it in 2004 and read it in German. After I bought it I saw it by many women on the bus or the training reading books by Paulo Coelho,
The book is about a girl called Maria from Brazil who leaves the country heartbroken and goes to Switzerland to work as a model. Modeling, however, does not work for her so she starts working in a nightclub. She has an argument with the owner of the nightclub, so she decides to leave him.
She runs out of money and an Arab man offers her 1000 francs to sleep with her. She accepts the offer and sleeps with him. After this experience, she decides to become a prostitute. She makes the decision that real love does not excite her and writes this in her diary. She becomes very popular and respected by the other prostitutes.
This was my first book reading about a prostitute, it has lots of sex scenes, masturbation, sadism, and other things.
One day she meets a handsome young man called Ralf and she realizes that she has feelings for him. She is very scared because it is a combination of Love & Sex. Marie is very scared of this and what it could mean for her. She doesn't want to be free, because she is in a cage in her inner cage. The combination of sex & love could free her. It can open the doors for her to a new chapter or a new beginning in her life.
Overall I think it is a very good book to read and Paulo Coelho knows how to capture his readers. He wrote so many good books, in my opinion, like the Alchemist, Pilgrimage, and The Zahir which I read. I think I will read Elven Minutes in English because it was so long ago.
Happy Valentine's Day from me to you! 14.02.2021
About the Author: Paulo Coelho is born on 24.August 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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