num_pages: 269
description: “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.” – Entertainment Weekly Eleven Minutes tells 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, 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.
language: English
title: Eleven Minutes
titlecomplete: Eleven Minutes
characters: Ralph Hart, Maria
genres: Fiction, Spirituality, Contemporary, Philosophy, Brazil, Drama, Adult, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 173166
places: Rio de Janeiro, Rue de Berne, Geneva,, Geneva, Brazil, Paris
publisher: HarperOne