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Since the famous novel-parable `The Alchemist` has become public, its author has firmly held positions in the top ten most published writers in the world. And also the most controversial, since no other writer of the turn of the millennium causes such heated debate and such conflicting assessments - from the `greatest thinker of our days` and even `chief ideologist of mankind` to `the most exaggerated value of modern literature`. The new work of the Brazilian author continues the theme of women, begun in the novels `On the banks of the Rio Piedra I sat down and cried`, `Veronica decides to die` and `The Devil and Señorita Prim`. But according to the author himself, Eleven Minutes is `a book that talks about such a subject that can confuse, shock, and hurt`. This is the most frank, the most naturalistic - and the most scandalous of Paulo Coelho's novels. The new novel is a story about a prostitute named Maria. It is she, a professional priestess of love, who will have to express the author's doubts and thoughts about a problem that has long been ripe in modern society, but which no one has yet dared to speak openly...