Eleven Minutes
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 3, 2021
“One of Coelho’s strongest.”—Kirkus Reviews “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.”—Entertainment Weekly From the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons.
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- Who it’s for
- A sensual novel that asks what love means when desire and fear pull in different directions.
- Themes
- Sex and love, Self-discovery, Prejudice and inner conflict
- Genres
- Brazilian Fiction, Erotica, Visionary Fiction
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“One of Coelho’s strongest.”—Kirkus Reviews “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.”—Entertainment Weekly From the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons. Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken.
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At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria must choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of true love. “Sensual . . . [An] adults-only fairly tale.”—Washington Post “[This] Brazilian wizard makes books disappear from stores.”—The New York Times
Love, Tested
A sensual novel that asks what love means when desire and fear pull in different directions.
Come here for
- An intimate exploration of sex, love, and the beliefs we bring to both
- A sustained journey of self-discovery with real emotional stakes
Expect
- A sensual, reflective story about desire and the possibility of love
- Questions of prejudice, suffering, and inner change
Where it sits
| Brazilian Fiction | 40% |
|---|---|
| Visionary Fiction | 37% |
| Erotica | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- The Classics
- Erotica
- Medieval Historical Fiction
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- Literary Fiction
- Faith & Fiction
- Fantasy Romance
- American Historical Romance
- Authors
- Paulo Coelho
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 3, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Sex and love · Self-discovery · Prejudice and inner conflict
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies