‘Once upon a time’ is how all the best children’s stories begin and ‘prostitute’ is a word for adults. Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. However, I feel that some amount of longing across continents would be better before they would come to the realisation that they are meant to be together.īelow are the lines that earned Eleven Minutes a spot on my list of favourite books of all times: But again, Maria had had her fair share of sufferings so probably a little bit of fairytale was due in her life. Now that, I feel, is too fairytale like for such a perfect book. Also, my mum once told me that the love left incomplete is the sweetest… Eleven Minutes ends with Ralf meeting Maria in Paris airport with roses and quoting his favourite line from Casablanca. I’m not a fan of happy endings in fiction, they are just too far off from reality. However, there is one small thing that makes the book a little less perfect to me. When I first read it, there were several sections that were so deep that I would pause reading at the end of the page and let it all sink in.
However, there is something about Eleven Minutes that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. The Alchemist is no doubt Paulo Coelho’s best work in English.
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