once minutes

International Bestseller #1, from the acclaimed author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho. Once upon a time there was a prostitute named Maria... Like a fairy tale told for adults, thus begins the novel that moved the world. It took me a long time to learn that the carnal encounter of two bodies is more than a simple response to physical stimuli or the instinct of perpetuation of the species. In truth, it carries with it all the cultural burden of man and humanity. Eleven Minutes does not pretend to be a manual or a treatise on man and woman facing the still unknown world of sexual relations. It is an analysis of my own journey, without pretending, at any time, to judge what I lived; I was looking to discover if I had had the courage to learn everything that life taught me about it. Paulo Coelho