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Eleven minutes

Eleven minutes

Coelho, Paulo.
Book 2005

Tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, who suffers unrequited love as a child, learns a bit about sex as a teenager and, at 19, makes an ill-advised decision to leave Rio for Geneva on a Swedish stranger's promise of fame and fortune where she ends up working as a prostitute.

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Brazilians Switzerland Fiction
Man-woman relationships Fiction
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ISBN:
9780060589288
0060589280
0060589272
Edition:
First Perennial edition
Description:
273 pages ; 21 cm
Other Title:
11 minutes
Notes:
Translation of: Onze minutos
Originally published in Portugese: Brazil : Editora Rocco, 2003
Previously published in hardcover: New York : HarperCollins, c2004
Includes a sneak preview of the author's novel "The Zahir" and a section of insights, interviews and more about the author, the book "Eleven Minutes", and questions and answers with Paulo Coelho
Control Number:
111321
Other Authors:
Coelho, Paulo. Onze minutos. English
Costa, Margaret Jull
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