Characters: Brazil Switzerland

Maria, a young girl from a remote village of Brazil, with innocent brushes from love failures at
an early adolescent stage and hatred for love goes to seek her fortune in Switzerland, only to find
that reality is lot harder than she expected. After working in a nightclub as a Samba Dancer for a
brief period, she realises that this is not what she wants. After having heated discussion with her
manager one night, she storms out and begins to look for a career in modelling. After waiting for
a long time when her funds begin to dwindle, she engages herself for "one night" with an Arab
for 1000 francs. Delighted with the easy money and after compromising with her soul she lands
in a brothel on Rue de Berne, the heart of Geneva's red-light district.
There she befriends Nyah who gives her advice on her "new profession" and after learning the
ritual from Milan, the owner of the brothel, she begins the job with her body and mind shutting
all doors for love and keeps her heart open only for her diary. Soon she becomes famous and her
colleagues begin to envy her. Months pass and Maria grows into a professionally groomed
prostitute who not only relaxes one's mind, but also calms the clients' souls by talking to them
about their problems.
The world turns upside down for her when one day she meets painter Ralf who sees her "inner
light" and she instantly falls in love with him and begins to experience what true love is. (It is a
sense of being for someone without actually possessing him ) Maria now torn between her sexual
fantasy and true love for the painter, now believes that it's time for her to leave Geneva with her
memory of Ralf as she realizes they are worlds apart. But before leaving she decides to rekindle
the dead sexual fire in Ralf and learns about the nature of Sacred Sex, sex which is mingled with
true love and which knows to give up your soul for the one you love, from him.
This book explores the sacred nature of sex.Eleven Minutes tell the existence of two types of
prostitution.Prostitution for money and Sacred prostitution in which the latter is dead long
ago.The book categorically proved the existence sacred prostitution.The book also contains s
direct references to sadomasochism.
This story in fact, is Maria's journey to find what true love is by letting her own life guide her.
She enters a life that leads her down the path of sexual awakenings and almost leads to her self-
destruction when she is introduced to all sides of sexual experience. When she has given up hope
to find true love, she finds her true "inner light" and her everlasting true love…
[edit] Characters
Maria – the main character
Maria's father – a salesman
Maria's mother - a seamstress
Boy from Maria's childhood - this was Maria's puppy love (she was 11 years old). Experience
with this boy became Maria's motivation to be bolder with boys/ men.
Maria's boyfriend who gave her the first kiss – later this boy flirted with Maria's girlfriend. It
motivated Maria to earn a lot of money so one day she could humiliate him (beside buying a
farm for her parents)
Maria's boyfriend to whom she lost her virginity – Maria used him to learn about sex.
Store owner – Maria’s boss. He fell in love with Maria and provided the money for her trip to
Rio de Janeiro. He became Maria’s safety net in her future plan
Maílson – translator / security / agent in Rio de Janeiro, he provided translation service when
Maria met Roger Roger – his main interest was to employ beautiful young girls to dance at his
club.
Vivian – a cold woman who knew better that the young girls would not get their dream (i.e.
adventure, money, finding husband) while worked for Roger. She introduced the name “Rue de
Berne” to Maria, which was a red district in Genève
Arabic boyfriend – Maria’s acquaintance with this man cost her her job at Roger’s club
Heidi – the woman at the library from whom Maria borrowed books
Maria’s first customer – an Arabic man, he paid one thousand Swiss franc to sleep with her
The invisible woman – only Maria could see her. She took the appearance of Virgin Mary, Jesus’
mother
Milan – the owner of “Copacobana” where Maria worked as a prostitute
Nyah – Filipino prostitute and Maria’s only girlfriend at Copacobana
Ralf Hart – a 29 year old successful painter to whom Maria secretly fell in love. Ralf married
twice but got divorced because he lost interest in the sexual part of a relationship. He saw Maria
as his opportunity to learn about sex once again
Terence – a wealthy English man who introduced Maria to the pleasure of sadism and
masochism

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Maria, a young girl from a remote village of Brazil, with innocent brushes from love failures at

Maria's father – a salesman

Maria's mother - a seamstress

Milan – the owner of “Copacobana” where Maria worked as a prostitute

Nyah – Filipino prostitute and Maria’s only girlfriend at Copacobana

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