num_pages: 192
description: Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, 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. 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.
language: English
title: Eleven Minutes
titlecomplete: Eleven Minutes
characters: Ralph Hart, Maria
genres: Literature, Novels, Drama, Philosophy, Adult, Spirituality, Fiction, Contemporary, Brazil, Romance
ratings_count: 173188
places: Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rue de Berne, Geneva,, Geneva, Brazil
publisher: Harper Collins Australia