The release date for the English version of 'Eleven Minutes' by
Paulo Coelho is Jan 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The protagonist of Eleven Minutes is Maria, a young child from a Brazilian town whose heart is wounded by her first naive encounters with love. She starts to believe from an early age that she would never experience genuine love and that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer." She travels to Geneva after a fortuitous encounter in Rio, where her ambition is to become famous and wealthy.
Maria meets a charming young painter, who challenges her pessimistic perception of love. Maria must decide on a road of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risk all in her quest for her own "inner light" and the chance to have holy sex, or sex in the context of love.