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Eleven Minutes is a bestselling contemporary novel by Paulo Coelho. Summary of the Book Maria is a young girl from Brazil, disillusioned with love early in her life. She feels she will never find true love, and believes love only exists to make one suffer. A chance meeting takes her to Geneva, where her dreams of fame and fortune are dashed to the ground and she is forced to make a living as a prostitute. She continues to be repulsed with love further and further, but gains a fascination for sex. When she meets a handsome young painter, her disillusionment undergoes a severe test. She finds herself pitted against her own walls, the walls she built up against love, her desire for sexual pleasure solely for the sake of exploring her body, and her gradually increasing feelings for a man who may mean much, much more to her than can possibly be fair. About Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist and lyricist. He has also written The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die, Brida and The Devil and Miss Prym.