This was my first time reading The Devil and Miss Prym. The people of Viscos knew that was normal behaviour amongst old people: they sit dreaming of the past and their youth, they look out at a world in which they no longer play a part and try to find something to talk to the neighbours about. A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.įor almost fifteen years, old Berta had spent every day sitting outside her front door. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho’s unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.īurying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village – Miss Prym.
A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.Ī stranger arrives in the small mountain village.
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