Eleven Minutes
“I am not a body with soul, I am a soul that has a visible part called body”
Eleven Minutes is not like any other conventional work of Paulo Coelho. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the book is about an immigrant sex worker in Switzerland. It made me more than a little uncomfortable, not because I have anything against sex workers, but because, it is from world ace novelist and he never wrote on such subjects from ages. It starts with “Once upon a time there was a prostitute”. Eleven minutes is the journey of a girl named Maria who falls in universal solvent of love at a tender age of 10 and finds prince charming in a guy who resides in her neighborhood , but things doesn't happen in way she wants. Aftermath of the throb is that love becomes a four letter delusion word for her; nothing else. The first few pages are lunatic, example of dirty literary porn,full of informal words, enough to make a kid in, adolescence masturbate.
In order to explore an outside world she moves to Reo de jenario, where she is betrayed and sent to Switzerland, to work as a samba dancer in a club.To kill day boredom, she makes library an integral part of her life( i do the same). later to earn a better livelihood and afford a return ticket to Brazil ,she moved to abattoir of human flesh and becomes a hooker.But her expectation from life keep on increasing, from few dollars she started to earn in thousands. one day finally in form a painter,her prince charming arrived. At the end, the story boils down to a rather predictable romance tatted up with a few sexy trappings.
The title Eleven minutes is a prostitute confession about those intense eleven minutes of sex and life. Why, when, where and under what circumstances, she moves to the vulnerable and haughty occupation of prostitution .Each of his novels teaches valuable lessons for adults through the interesting happenings of his protagonists. This story does the same. However the lesson teaches borders on relationship counseling and sexual education.
7.5 on a 10 scale. — at gautam nagar Bhopal
Eleven Minutes is not like any other conventional work of Paulo Coelho. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the book is about an immigrant sex worker in Switzerland. It made me more than a little uncomfortable, not because I have anything against sex workers, but because, it is from world ace novelist and he never wrote on such subjects from ages. It starts with “Once upon a time there was a prostitute”. Eleven minutes is the journey of a girl named Maria who falls in universal solvent of love at a tender age of 10 and finds prince charming in a guy who resides in her neighborhood , but things doesn't happen in way she wants. Aftermath of the throb is that love becomes a four letter delusion word for her; nothing else. The first few pages are lunatic, example of dirty literary porn,full of informal words, enough to make a kid in, adolescence masturbate.
In order to explore an outside world she moves to Reo de jenario, where she is betrayed and sent to Switzerland, to work as a samba dancer in a club.To kill day boredom, she makes library an integral part of her life( i do the same). later to earn a better livelihood and afford a return ticket to Brazil ,she moved to abattoir of human flesh and becomes a hooker.But her expectation from life keep on increasing, from few dollars she started to earn in thousands. one day finally in form a painter,her prince charming arrived. At the end, the story boils down to a rather predictable romance tatted up with a few sexy trappings.
The title Eleven minutes is a prostitute confession about those intense eleven minutes of sex and life. Why, when, where and under what circumstances, she moves to the vulnerable and haughty occupation of prostitution .Each of his novels teaches valuable lessons for adults through the interesting happenings of his protagonists. This story does the same. However the lesson teaches borders on relationship counseling and sexual education.
7.5 on a 10 scale. — at gautam nagar Bhopal
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