This is the beginning of Maria's career as a prostitute, something she does because it is good money for relatively little investment. Maria signs up at a modeling agency and meets a client to discuss a fashion show, but Maria ends up sleeping with the man for money. Fortunately, the man helps Maria get a generous severance package and Maria is able to live for awhile while she looks for more work. When the man discovers that Maria has dated a man she had met at the club, she is fired. Immediately upon her arrival, Maria learns the truth about the arrangement and will receive much less money that she had hoped, forcing her into a lifestyle much more restricted than the one she had imagined. Maria goes to Rio de Janeiro, where she is approached by a Swiss entertainment businessman and is coaxed to fly back to Switzerland with the man and work in his nightclub as a samba dancer. Maria is different from other girls in her town in that she craves adventure, but it is not until she has graduated and has worked two years in a draper's shop that Maria can save enough money for a small vacation. Maria has several experiences with young love but her true love never appears, leaving Maria to believe that she is destined to live without that most important element that she believes most people find. Although she is good at school and always tries to better her situation by reading books, Maria's only goal is to fall in love, marry, and raise a family.
In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light.Maria grows up in a small town in the interior of Brazil where folklore, superstitions, and traditional roles for women are woven into the culture. 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. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex.
Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute. " A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. 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 new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken.
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