FOREWORD: It was actually few years back that I knew about this story teller, why I call him a story teller is, his voice resonates when one leafes through his words.I read his book 'THE ALCHEMIST', I need to say I lived it rather than saying I read it.Such was his intensity and ease of narrating.His words, his language his philosophy every thing was tucked with some magic , some palpable feeling at heart which unleashes the other unkown part of us.I know it got translated from Portuguese and was not directly written in English but may be 'Margaret Jull Cost', the one who translated it to English might carried the magic as it it is .
Hoping to savour all that again , I Craved and longed to read his another best selling book elven minutes.
JOT(from Good reads): Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
MY REFLECTION: Being a male and getting into shoes of a woman is absolutely not an easy task.Women are extrordinary creatures and it takes eons to learn about a single woman.
But here Paulo has wrote a book through the eyes of a woman , a stong, bold woman I can say.Pouring into her all the subtle naunces a woman should have and narrating his story through her.
It was not all like reading a single book, for me it was like reading a Novel which contained a self-help, a book of romance, a book of spiriual quest ,all put together tapestried as a beautiful story and served Hot.
The book makes every reader Introspect , re-discover, transform and enlighten .
The few words from the book which touched me and digged deep into my soul are:
" THe greatest aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love .Love is not to be found in someone else ,but in ourselves; we simply awake it. But in order to do that we need the other person."
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