Eleven Minutes

All that awaits Maria in Geneva, however, is a job at a seedy nightclub, and her dreams disintegrate until she is working the streets as a prostitute. She renounces true love and becomes fascinated with sex, but this is sex without love, sex that gestures towards a dark path. In her diary she writes: "I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart" But when she begins to fall for a handsome young painter, Maria sets out on an odyssey of discovery, not only about sex and romance, but also about herself, her beliefs, and true meaning of love. What they said: ′Has a strange and potent chemistry of its own.′ Observer ′Coelho has a deceptively simple but elegant writing style which sits well with this strange but gripping tale.′ Glasgow Evening Times prime;A simply-told fable for our times, highlighting the quest for personal spiritual enlightenment.′ Belfast Telegraph<