In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops 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" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
In this gripping and daring 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."
Coelho elevates his readers to a passionate realm of love, sex and divinity. Through the interaction between Ralf and Maria, the readers are made part of the furious, furtive passion of these young lovers. We are taken on a spiritual journey on the route of love and through the realization of our central characters; Coelho elaborates his ideas of sacred love. He challenges us to question everything that we know about love and life and makes us see something from an alternate perspective.
He adopts an almost fable like approach to tell a story about love and passion. He uses deft brushstrokes like an artist and colors every tiny speck of space on this canvas with myriad hues from his imagination. This is what makes his style of writing so unique and the taste or the essence of his books linger in the reader’s minds. He catapults you to the height of your own imagination and where you will go from there is left to you.
Among the many ideas that I gained from this book, the most poignant of them all was the realization that one must lose oneself completely in order to be found.
So, on this note, I ask myself: do you prefer a life mapped with reason to guide each and every step of your journey or would you rather take a leap of faith into the unknown with nothing but a dash of hope to take you there?
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