![]() And then she meets a seductive young painter, who may or may not offer her a new path in life. ![]() Maria's approach to sex is complex-this is no mere revulsion arising from what she is now doing with her life. ![]() Maria's disillusionment with love leads her to Geneva where she finally ends up selling her body (Coelho may offer us the beauty of life, but never at the expense of its harshness). From this point, Coelho has us inexorably in his grip. But then Maria experiences love and suffers great pain. Such books as The Fifth Mountain and The Devil and Miss Prym are enough to explain a considerable following for the author, with their atmospheric prose and involving characters.Įleven Minutes tells the story of young Maria living an innocent life in a Brazilian village and is played out in a measured fashion, but with all the author's brilliant scene-setting (very lush here) fully in place. ![]() ![]() But what is the Paulo Coelho phenomenon? How can an author who (only a short time ago) was virtually unknown to most readers have taken the world of books by storm-and without the benefit of glitzy advertising? The answer is simple: quality. Paulo Coelho's astonishingly beautiful writing in Eleven Minutes virtually guarantees it the cult status that The Alchemist already enjoys. ![]()
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