000 02119cam a22003374a 4500
001 13299781
003 LC
005 20160223091811.0
008 030804s2004 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2003061131
020 _a006072675X
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dDLC
041 1 _aeng
_hpor
042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aPQ 9698.13.O3546
_b.C65e 2004
082 0 0 _aFIC
_bC65e 2004
100 1 _aCoelho, Paulo.
_92923
240 1 0 _aOnze minutos.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aEleven minutes
_ba novel
_cPaulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarperCollins Publishers,
_cc2004.
300 _a273 p. ;
_c17 cm.
520 _aMaria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. 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. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, 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 has to 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 sacred sex, sex in the context of love. In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light."
562 _e1
650 _aFiction.
_9746
700 1 _aCosta, Margaret Jull
_918091
906 _a7
_bcbc
_corignew
_d1
_eocip
_f20
_gy-gencatlg
942 _2lcc
_cBK
999 _c10894
_d10894