Ratings38
Average rating3.1
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.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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I loved how this story beautifully portraits the story from a character's mind. I loved the originality of a girl's emotions and feelings would be, if she gone through hard situation especially as a prostitute. I enjoyed and lived in every pages and lines. I don't usually like these kind of non fiction genre. But this will definitely live in my heart forever
The plot is straightforward, and the writing is clear but not particularly remarkable.
It follows a young woman and her journey as a prostitute. It was Intresting to read how she tackled her issues and see how the story will end.
The plot is not that predictable but not innovative either. It’s a decent choice for a light, uncomplicated read.
I'm still trying to understand what exactly this book is trying to convey, since he brings up so many things - a character study into a prostitute, who she is, and what lead her to become one, her journey of self exploration and finding love and understanding the life around her, quite a few history lessons into sex, prostitution, and female pleasure.
I found it a little weird when the character go into explicit details about how to pleasure a woman, what was this book trying to do?
I'm also trying to understand why the book contradicts itself so much in the ending.
while talking entirely about finding love by surrendrence, and finding freedom while letting go, and literally talking about how movies always have that one moment when she's leaving and he catches her at the last moment when HE LITERALLY DOES THE EXACT SAME THING. They tie themselves to each other at the end when the book goes into such detail about why that is a bad thing.
The writing is beautiful though, and it's really making me think about things brought up in the book, and I think in that matter the book did reach me.
I really don't know how i would rather this, but I'll settle on 4.5.