
The new bestselling novel now in paperback from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho author of The Alchemist A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva where she dreams of finding fame & fortune yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute In Geneva Maria drifts further & further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex Eventually 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' & the possibility of sacred sex sex in the context of love A daring modern fable about the nature of love & sex