Thursday 20th                  11:00 a.m.to 12:15p.m.

Residence of:   Varsha Sheth

                                                                         ELEVEN MINUTES

Some books make the reader dream; others bring them face to face with reality.

‘Eleven Minutes’ is a brush with reality in the oldest profession the world has known – prostitution.   Maria, a Brazilian village girl’s first encounter with love, leaves her heart-broken.   A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, dreaming of fame, but, making her a prostitute.  Her world turns upside down when she meets Ralf, a Swiss painter, who sees her "inner light" and shows her true love.

Born in Brazil, Paulo attended a Jesuit school. After a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain, he had a spiritual awakening and wrote the ‘Alchemist’ which  has sold over 65 million copies, is one of the best-selling books in history,  translated into 67 different languages and winning the Guinness World Record for most the translated book by a living author.

He is also the recipient of several International awards        

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Book for September:      Breathless in Bombay by Murzban Shroff

Book for October:            Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore