Eleven Minutes: A NovelHarper Collins, 13/10/2009 - 320 من الصفحات “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. |
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... looking for other things beyond getting all dressed up for someone else.They were more independent, took more interest in themselves, although, in Maria's imagination, the world for them must seem unbearable. Sheknew howattractive she ...
... looking for new talent to work in Europe. If you like,I can putyou intouch with some otherpeople who accepted hisinvitation, gotrichand arenow marriedwith children whowon't have to worry aboutbeing mugged or unemployed.” Then, trying to ...
... looking at the dusty streets of the town where she lived, she decided that one day she would follow in the boy's footsteps. On the nine Fridays that followed, she took communion, as was the custom in her religion, and asked the Virgin ...
... intelligent than her mother orher future husband imagined, andshe said, simply to be provocative: “Mama, there isn't abusfrom EuropetoBrazil. Besides,I want acareer asa performer, I'm not looking for marriage.” Her mother gave her.
... looking for someone with whom she could share her dreams of adventure. When she had just turned fifteen, she fell in love with a boy she had met in a Holy Week procession. She did not repeat her childhood mistake: they talked, became ...