LEADER 01561ojm 2200289z- 450 001 9910148959703321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a0-00-731183-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000923154 035 $a(BIP)024829951 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000923154 100 $a20231107c2009uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aEleven Minutes 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $aThe bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.'Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer...'So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was a fantasy. The reality - selling herself to survive - is a dehumanising grind that pushes her further away from real love, towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure.But when her emotional barriers are tested by a handsome young painter, she must choose between the dark path she is on and risking everything to find her 'inner light'. Can she move beyond the meeting of minds or even souls - to a place where sex itself is sacred?A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex. 610 $aBrazil 610 $aFiction 676 $a869.342 700 $aCoelho$b Paulo$f1947-$0176388 702 $aJull Costa$b Margaret$4trl 702 $aJacobi$b Derek$4oth 702 $aFox$b Emilia$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910148959703321 996 $aEleven Minutes$93598333 997 $aUNINA