A young woman leaves Brazil to become a prostitute in Geneva.
Maria, disappointed with her hohum life in Brazil, encounters a Swiss
man who offers her a job in his
nightclub in Geneva. Looking for a
change, she takes him up, but growing lonely in cold Switzerland, she begins working at an upscale
brothel. There she meets two special
clients who tempt her with two different visions of life, one profane and one
sacred (but still pretty profane). She ponders
which path she should take.
I thought this was going to be a literary novel, a “worthwhile” novel,
and after a couple of pages I realized it wasn’t. But by that time, I couldn’t put down the book. I was totally sucked into the story of resourceful
Maria and her spiritual search. The
story is entertaining but also philosophically pretentious and sublimely silly. A confection of loopy dogma. Many pages are devoted to the sacred mystery
of the vaginal orgasm. With the help
of a sensitive man, Maria achieves her once unbelievable goal. Whew. Or should I say, Wow.
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