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    Eleven Minutes \ Once Minutos (Spanish edition): Una Novela

    By Paulo Coelho

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    Una novela cautivadora y audaz del autor de El Alquimista, bestseller con mas de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. En este nuevo relato, el novelista explora con gran sensibilidad la naturaleza sagrada del sexo y del amor y nos invita a enfrentar nuestros propios prejuicios y demonios. Once Minutos relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor le dejan con el corazón destrozado. A su tierna edad, se convence de que jamás hallará el amor verdadero; al contrario, considera que "El amor es algo horrible que produce sufrimiento." Un encuentro casual en Río la lleva a Ginebra, donde sueña con conseguir fama y fortuna. Sin embargo, termina trabajando de prostituta. En Ginebra, la opinión desesperanzada que María tiene del amor, se pone a prueba al conocer a un apuesto joven pintor. En esta odisea de descubrimiento personal, María debe elegir entre recorrer el camino de la oscuridad, el del sexo por el sexo mismo, o arriesgarlo todo para descubrir su propia "luz interior" y las posibilidad del sexo sagrado, es decir, del sexo dentro del contexto del amor.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 10, 2012
    ISBN9780062226464
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    Eleven Minutes \ Once Minutos (Spanish edition): Una Novela
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    Paulo Coelho

    Paulo Coelho is the author of The Alchemist, he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Paulo Coelho is the recipient of over 115 awards and honours, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Grinzane Cavour Book Award and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, to name a few.

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    • 2/5
      Again, too 'out there' for me. I really want to like Paulo Coelho's books after reading The Alchemist. Which one should I read?
    • 4/5
      3.5*** Maria is a young girl form a small Brazilian town. Her first love leaves her heartbroken and she becomes convinced that she is destined to never find true love. She works in a drapery firm, where she fends off her boss. On a trip to Rio de Janeiro she meets a “businessman” who promises her fame and fortune in Switzerland. Well this went in a direction I wasn’t expecting. Yes, of course, Maria winds up a prostitute and not a famous movie actress, but she comes to understand much about herself and the world. She starts going to the library and reads up on a wide variety of topics. She opens a bank account and saves for her eventual return to Brazil, where she plans to buy a farm for her parents. She explores her sexuality in ways she never expected and thinks long and hard about the meaning of love and whether it really exists. There were several times when I thought that Coelho really doesn’t know women at all. And still, I was captivated by Maria and her journey. I had previously read Coelho’s The Alchemist and was not enthralled. At the outset of this book I felt it might just be the author’s attempt to write the same book with a female protagonist. But the strength and beauty of Coelho’s writing carried me away. I was heading for a 4-star rating, but the fairy tale ending lost a half star for me.
    • 5/5
      Fo Danica. I read this every year back to back with his other book Veronika decides to die (see review below this, you might like that one too) Thanks for reading. Hope this helps you buy the book. Paulo Coelho is one of my favorite author of our time. He writes beautiful prose, dramatic truths and brave visuals thru his scenes. He makes me contemplate on the things that I don't normally consider having strong views on. He challenges my reasoning and makes me do a double take on my opinions. 11 Minutes is my 2nd favorite from all his books. From the back cover of the book and from the blurbs I gathered from AMAZON.COM the book sounds like your typical erotic books that portrays a young girl that got mixed up with the world of prostitution thus comes graphic descriptions of sex. Nope, this book is more than that. The book is about the difference of Sex and Love. One girl's journey from innocence to understanding the real world will make you want ot read the book page after page until you sigh on how wonderful her story goes. I find the book overpowering due to the subject it presents. Especially the moral vindication and the metaphysics (inner being and the soul) approach on the subject.
    • 3/5
      Another angle on an old topic. Well written.
    • 4/5
      Me gusto mucho un libro en el cual me senti muy abierta a leer sobre temas que nunca habia encontrado en ningun libro, Paulo Coelho sabe muy bien como describir los sentimientos y la naturaleza del ser humano en el. La historia muy buena, una realidad que muchas mujeres viven.
    • 2/5
      In its dedication, author Paulo Coelho warns readers of his newest novel of its potentially disturbing topic, a subject he claims to be “harsh, difficult, shocking.â€? He needn’t have worried: despite writing a book mainly about sex and its secrets, the novel has already become a bestseller the world over.However, while the subject of sex may be viewed as harsh, even difficult, what is truly shocking about Eleven Minutes is how trite, how smug, how absolutely dull it all is.The award-winning Brazilian author has built himself a widespread reputation as a writer of allegories, understated tales of identity and self-discovery that serve to reveal simple truths to his readers. Through stories such as his bestseller The Alchemist, Coelho’s parables, like the fables of Aesop, are designed to teach as well as entertain.In this vein, Coelho presents Eleven Minutes as a modern fairy tale, going so far as to open his story with the phrase, “Once upon a time.â€? While sex is a decidedly adult theme, he explains that since “we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss,â€? the storybook beginning is appropriate for what follows.Maria is a young Brazilian woman who falls for the spiel of a Swiss businessman, finding herself whisked to Switzerland with the lure of fame and fortune. Through a quick series of missteps, she falls into prostitution, working independently out of a nightclub while striving to save enough money to return home.Maria, innocent yet wise, views her situation as an exercise in self-control and freedom, and begins to search for the meaning of sex with and without love. She studies books at the library, hoping to uncover a reason why the world seemingly “revolved around something that only took eleven minutes.â€?Taking its title from Irving Wallace’s novel The Seven Minutes (Coelho feels Wallace’s estimation of the time of the sexual act was too conservative), Coelho attempts through his narrative to renew the reader’s acquaintance with the sacredness of sex. To Coelho, the act itself, those brief eleven minutes, is of minor importance in a relationship of love and understanding. It only regains its significance when seen as a continuation of one’s ongoing love of another, the overall connection of two souls where the physical act of love is a logical extension, rather than the short-lived intermingling of bodies for instant gratification. A nice sentiment, but Coelho writes with such overwhelming condescension that any point becomes lost in a morass of speechifying characters and anatomically accurate descriptions of female genitalia (presumably the “shockingâ€? part of the book).His Pretty Woman-like scenario, complete with the mysterious painter with hidden depths (is there any other kind?), coupled with prose that reads like a kindergarten teacher lecturing five-year-olds, results in a story of such banality that any revelations as to the character and significance of sex are ultimately overwhelmed.Eleven Minutes reads like what it really is, a high-toned bodice-ripper with pretensions of wisdom. Coelho’s intentions may have been sincere, but his product is morally dishonest, a chastising lecture on the sexual follies of the young.
    • 2/5
      It started off pretty good, but then dragged on...rather disappointing, actually. Maria was really not a character I could sympathize with.
    • 3/5
      Quick read. Interesting background of a prostetute.
    • 5/5
      ME ENCANTO SU LECTURA, LO LEI Y ME AGRADO MUCHO.
    • 4/5
      Sexuality, a young rural woman in the city, references to the Camino of Santiago de Compostella - a very good book.
    • 2/5
      I didn't enjoy this book, although I kept expecting it to get 'better'. Not that it had anything to do with the subject: i.e. prostitution and the protagonist's journey of 'self-discovery'. The tone of the book just seemed like a very long and drawn-out, and somewhat torturous (pardon the analogical lines) foreplay, with an slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am climatic, albeit 'happy' ending.
    • 2/5
      This book broke my heart!! I didn't like it!!! And to think it's a true story is devastating!
    • 5/5
      Paulo Coelho's first work that i read was the alchemist and i didnt understand that y d world went all ga-ga over paulo coelho's work. perhaps i was too young to understand the underlying meaning of the words.
      but many years now, i read another of his work. normally it takes me a very short amount of time to finish off a book but dis one i took a long time to complete. coz in order to understand the true self of this book one has to sip it like a Bordeaux..to let the flavor set in.
      i must say, it was a ponderous journey and an truly enlightening one.

    • 3/5
      I enjoyed reading this. Very realistic, yet strangely inspiring.
    • 2/5
      “Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”Eleven Minutes tells the tale a young woman named Maria who leaves her home town in the Brazilian interior to go to Geneva, Switzerland, in search of adventure and love. She originally goes as a dancer but when this proves not to be what she had hoped for and instead pursues a career in prostitution in order to make enough money to return home. Whilst in Switzerland, Maria experiences pain, pleasure, and love and must decide the correct path for her life.Desire is a major theme throughout. Maria realises that she is different from her family and school friends and desires the to leave her own town and find adventure. She takes the first opportunity she has to visit Rio where she is spotted and given the chance to travel to Switzerland. Obviously sex is also a desire in particular by the men who pay for it but Maria also desires true love and eventually a family. Yet once in both Geneva she fails to really do anything other than wander around the city and work never leaving the city's environs suggesting that desire is more preferable to attainment.Initially I thought that this might be an expose of the white slavery trade but in the end read like a lot of moralising with a lengthy segment about the cliterous which seemed to add little to the story. Rather sections read like an extended soft-porn tale with little of the mystic qualities that the author's books are usually renowned for. Overall I found this disappointing but then perhaps it was just my male ego taking a hefty knock.
    • 2/5
      I think I've just found my first book from Paulo Coelho which was a dissapointment. As a huge fan, I was expecting a wonderful story like The Alchemist, which kept me hooked the whole time.
      Unfortunately, it's not the lack of interesting characters. Maria, a brazilian woman in Géneve had a lot of potential. It's just that this book makes me SO mad because it repeats to you facts over and over.
      The story's beauty is stripped right out of it.
      What a shame.
    • 3/5
      Well It was okay but based on this book I am not looking forward to read any more of this authors books if I am honest. I started to get really bored after a while and that sucked cause I did like the writing. Still have 2 books here by him but I think I will give them back to my mother.
    • 1/5
      It was basically a boring book. I don't think Coelho knows half as much about women as he thinks he does. I doubt that he has spent any time in Geneva except maybe the sex bars. (I lived there for three years, and would have liked a little familiar local colour.) It is also dangerous because it trivializes the very real hazards most women face when they are brought to Europe by strangers. Most of them don't have any choice about prostitution; most of them don't have legal status; most of them end up a year later with HIV, not with the money to go home and buy a farm.
    • 4/5
      From my blogI have had Eleven Minutes on my bookshelf for 2 years, one of the first books I brought after blogging. The main thing I can say about this book is that it was thought provoking. It was hard to decide what to rate this book, the beginning I was fascinated and as it went on I began losing interest but I enjoyed the ending of the journey and how it all came together with the understanding of the clever title Eleven Minutes. This book will not be for everyone, it is exploring sexuality with spirituality undertones and may make some feel uncomfortable.What I enjoyed about this book was that it was like reading a thesis paper, very literal with artfully contrived meanings but easy enough for you to understand and have your own opinion on. Maria was looking for adventure, to become a star, find a husband and be happy, we went on the journey along with her. I thought she gambled with her life, she took risks that many do when they are young but some of hers could have caused her her life.Now that I have experienced reading a memoir when I read different novels I realise if it was a memoir I would have enjoyed it more, this is in that category. The character was inspired by someone but Paulo Coelho still put his own interpretation on the choices and consequences.If you want a thought provoking but easy read I say go for it. This is the first book I have read that I can understand every rating, if someone DNF or rated it a 1 to 5 star, I get it but it has its place in the writing world for sure. It seems like Paulo Coelho very much has a style of writing, that may seem formula like but I think it is more like a personal research paper that he allows the reader to experience and think about also.Another favourite was the opening, I would like to share.Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait as minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have on foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning........More favourite "thought provoking" quotesA writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. Page 53"Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? No, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? No, she wants him to see how devoted she is, how she suffers in order to make him happy. Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? No, he is giving his seat and tears for the good of the family. And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only joy: love."
    • 4/5
      Another wonderful book by Paulo Coelho. This was such an interesting reading.
    • 5/5
      Eleven minutes is a wonderful book on the sacredness of sex. It is a mixture of love and sex and shows that sex is meaningless if it is unaccompanied by love. Love makes meaning to sex and the eleven minutes which takes a person to have sex will appear lifetime. Among the basic themes of the book also shows that pain should not accompany love. Love is free and should be a source of happiness. Finally Love is a powerful force and no matter what the plans of a person or ambitions nothing will stop love from changing a person's course in life.
    • 4/5
      For me, the best by so far of Coelho's novels. A moving story of a prostitute who is able to find redemption and light. Bravo
    • 2/5
      This is my first Paulo Coelho book that I have read. My mother-in-law, who speaks little English, brought it home for me from the school library. I must say I was startled at how frank Coelho spoke about sex and in such detail. The book was definitely R rated if not on the verge of X rated. I personally would not recommend this book for just leisurely reading, unless of course you are looking for something absolutely scandalous.And while it was not the book I was expecting, I still read it, every page. And I couldn't help but be slightly disappointed once I reached the end. I wanted more. I wanted to know where the relationship went with Ralf and what career Maria would finally end up with. But in the end it simply was not my cup of tea. I'll stick to the more conservative.
    • 4/5
      Eleven Minutes was an amazing book. Paulo Choelho traps the essence of a women trough the life of Maria. It allows one discover themselves not only as a woman, but also as a friend, a wife, daughter, and a lover!
    • 5/5
      Honest, educational, true - Amazing that it is written by a man, because he captures a woman better than one would imagine.I read this quickly and will recommend it to friends.
    • 4/5
      I have just finished reading 'Eleven Minutes' by Paul Coelho. I was lent this book by a friend who raved about it. We had been talking about books one day and she said that I had to read this book. It was one of her all time favorites. Having previously read 'The Alchemist' and enjoyed it. In the past I have had trouble reading some of Coelho's other works.Eleven Minutes is an easy read, frankly addressing sex and sexual pursuits. The back cover describes the novel as "gripping and daring". I disagree. I did not find it at all gripping, but I can see where one could describe it as daring. Paul Coelho manages to discuss the different facets of sex, romance and reality in a comfortable language that is non confrontational to the reader."Eleven Minutes" has managed to re-ignite my interest is Coelho's other works and I am now off to try another of his books.
    • 5/5
      One of the best books I have ever read. It taught me that life is not as easy as a fairy tale, but it can be one too. It all depends on how you view your life. This book really touched my heart. I'm glad that Maria is not an ordinary woman, that even though her work is not socially accepted, she is not ashamed of it. And what I like about her most is her courage. She taught me that I shouldn't afraid of my future, that sorrow and grief can never be avoided. That in whatever I do, I should always not let opportunities pass me, and regret it later. That money is not what is always important. Your soul, you dignity, and most of all, love, is what matters. I will always remember her when times get rough and when I have doubts. I will always remember the lesson this book taught me: to always believe in pure and blind love. I have been using my head more than my heart frequently, but now I will try to balance both and know what to choose and never regret it afterward ; to treat everything as an opportunity, and most of all, to love.
    • 1/5
      CRAP!!! This is one of the worst books that I have ever read! Bad writing -- trite platitudes, little conflict, unrealistic characters. Even the sex scenes are BORING!!! Don't waste your time on this badly written, preachy, new age-y waste of paper.
    • 5/5
      A simple, young woman from Brazil is swept away to Switzerland by a slightly less than honest club owner and progresses into the world of prostitution. What is most interesting is the manner in which Maria reacts to her changes in fortune. More interesting is that it is based on a true story.Eleven Minutes is my first experience with Paulo Coehlo's work and I am favorably impressed. He writes in a clear, straightforward style reminiscent of George Orwell and Earnest Hemingway, but his words speak volumes. They leave you thinking about so much more than just the story told.
    • 4/5
      I'm glad I didn't read the other reviews before reading this as I enjoyed this book.The story of Maria's escape from poverty and the chances that take her to Geneva seem to me very typical. Unlike many girls in her situation, however, she manages to take control of the situation and this is refreshing if somewhat implausible.