Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist.
In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. Because this story tells us the other side of a prostitute.The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Finally, after the suggestion of a booktuber bought this book, read it, and loved it!ĭear readers, if you want to read something about prostitution and discovering the inner light of oneself, choose Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho. After that, I didn’t read any of his work. Later I read Veronica Decides To Die and didn’t understand well. I read his book called The Alchemist first and loved it. Also, apart from the physical appearances, status, virtues, lust, this novel speaks about the love between two souls suchlike is totally different from what our society tells us.Įventually, coming to the author, Paulo Coelho has never failed to surprise with his books and stories. I am the kind of person who loves to read about different myths, superstitions, traditions, the culture that made me love the book more.
Here and there the author has sprinkled some Brazilian myths and superstition that is interesting. The inner light in oneself and the souls that all together is fascinating. The novel has some mature content apart from that it, has more thought-provoking things like the history of prostitution where they spoke about sex as a sacred thing. So, the story is very captivating and flowing. Not everyone speaks or tells a tale about them. Eleven Minutes is the story of a prostitute. When I read the blurb, I made my mind to read this book for sure because of the very unusual story. Can she move beyond the meeting of bodies to a meeting of minds or even souls – to a place where sex itself is sacred? My reviewįirst and foremost, the storyline is very much interested me. But when her emotional barriers are tested by a handsome painter, she must choose between the dark past she is on and risking everything to find her ‘inner light’. The reality- selling herself to survive- is a dehumanizing grind that pushes her further away from real love, towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was a fantasy. “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.
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