with great pleasure I present "The Manuscript of Sonia." A series of facts, sometimes difficult and embarrassing, people, emotions, and hope for better days, they offered me the "tools" to conceive "Mariana," a Brazilian prostitute which managed to overcome his pain, preserving its "sacred space", his faith in life, addressing the differences of its existence without losing the tenderness, the sense of recognizing compassione.Nel path Mariana and her companions in the world prostitution in Europe and Brazil in the 90s, the reader can feel the experience of dreams, fears, disappointments, joy and tristezza.Per write "The Manuscript of Sonia" I collected the testimonies important to develop carefully the story of men and women from different social classes. It is not trivial analysis, much less a description of the vulgar world of prostituzione.Per me, the realization of this book is the amount, redemption, freedom purchased by my truth, one way to deal with my ghosts, my past, consciousness and the transformation that exists today and someone you love, a story imprinted on my skin in spending my vita.Ho decided to publish my manuscript after an event straordinario.Come many people around the world, so I was a fan of Paulo Coelho edema was in this spirit that I attended the Festival of Literature in Mantua in 1999, two years after finishing my book. The guest of honor was the very famous writer brasiliano.Mi presented the audience with a sign in his hands that lifted up so that he could read it. It read, in Portuguese: "my dream, TALK TO ME A MINUTE, PLEASE." The only intention was to ask him just read my book and I would provide an honest opinion. Our first meeting lasted really "A" minute, long enough to give me the address of his hotel for you to leave a copy of the manuscript at the reception. And surprisingly it was read. After several months I received a call praising the author's manuscript. It was in Zurich, Switzerland, and invited me to a meeting. I saw him with great joy. When I arrived, I was having dinner with Monica, a reporter for the newspaper Blick, and with a writer friend of his. He asked me to wait, and when finished dinner, I proposed to accompany on that road where I had set my book. I confess I was a very special night. Paulo Coelho is what his two friends were very excited about seeing the strength, the determination to the naturalness of women, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and lovers. As Paulo Coelho writes in the preface of my book, at that time delighted autographed his books in different languages \u200b\u200bthat some of these women had brought from their homes. I remember that at one point, said a phrase from the Bible, the encounter between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, which states: "Whoever loves much, much will be forgiven." Thanks to our very special meeting that night, comes the "genesis of Eleven Minutes." In the final note of His book, thanks Sonia Coelho (my first name), my manuscript and some prostitutes who, after reading an article in the journal Ilustrée on my history with the author, pay homage to him on his way to Geneva to attend a session of his autographs. If this meeting was a "sign" of fate, it certainly has awakened in me the urge, that perhaps I needed to have the courage to publish my book and realize my dream. With the support of the mass media, especially with a preface signed by Paulo Coelho in first person (I'll always be grateful to him) I have published in Brazil in September 2003 "The Manuscript of Sonia." While the illustrious preface can not be published edition in Italian, holding in his hands this book for me is already an achievement but also a way to allow many people to know the true reality that revolves around the world view of prostitution from a very particular and personal : dentro.Vorrei to wish her a good read, but I would also propose and stimulate reflection on the true position of women, by choice or fate, they find themselves in this life in contact with the bias and prejudice, especially on the real needs of the men who feed this realtà.Ora leave that Mariana and her feminine soul speak to the reader, through his voice and his words, whispering, will enter the heart, intimate, intense, captivating and that will carry us into the hell of our own soul searching and the paradise of the encounter with love. This story combines fact and fiction, in order to preserve the identity of those who have offered their testimonies and respect of the places, scenes of the narrative. Therefore do not see anything beyond the coincidences in reference to possible similarities with people or places reali.Concludo thanking all those people who made this work possible, signed with the pseudonym that one day I chose as a writer but also as Sonia, the real one, and as Mariana, the star of this trip ... so I always have.
Mariana Brasil
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