Quickly she becomes quite successful and famous and her colleagues begin to envy her. There she befriends Nyah who gives her advice on her "new profession" and after learning the tricks of the trade from Milan, the brothel owner, she enters the job with her body and mind shutting all doors for love and keeps her heart open only for her diary. She then decides to become a prostitute and ends up in a brothel on Rue de Berne, the heart of Geneva's red-light district. Because she is running out of money, she accepts 1000 francs from an Arab man to spend the night with him. She tries to become a model but is unsuccessful. She works for a time in a nightclub but soon becomes dissatisfied and after a heated discussion with her manager one night, she quits her job. Maria, a young girl from a remote village of Brazil, whose first encounters with love had left her heartbroken, goes to seek her fortune in Switzerland. Eleven Minutes ( Portuguese: Onze Minutos) is a 2003 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho that recounts the experiences of a young Brazilian prostitute and her journey to self-realisation through sexual experience.
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