Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho

The title “Eleven Minutes” (a novel written by Paolo Coelho) refers to what the author’s main character Maria finds out about the sexual act: it takes only eleven minutes on average to finish but people are just so obsessed with it. This is a book seemingly about sex, and all the good and bad associated with it. But beneath the surface, once the reader gets through the more graphic parts with a broad and open mind, one will find that this story is more about love, and how people confuse sex and love, and how people do not seem to find love in sex. This book is about the journey of one woman from an innocent, naive young girl who believed that she had blown her only chance at love, to a young woman who chooses the life of prostitution, then to a woman, though still young, has decided to open her heart again to allow “real” love in. It is quite an interesting read, however, the author is trying to deliver that his book is not for the people who think or believe that sex is a sin. Probably on the author’s point of view, the only way one can gain anything from this book is if one reads it with an absolutely open mind, and just allows the author to take him or her along on this journey.

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