The Devil and Miss Prym

by NickCaistor (Translator), PauloCoelho (Author), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)

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  2006

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.44

  this thought-provoking work from an internationally renowned author explores the turbulent battle between light and darkness continually fought in our souls. Set in the tiny, isolated village of Viscos, the Devil and Miss Prym begins with old Berta, the oldest inhabitant of the village. Berta has a terrifying premonition when she sees a stranger approaching the village's only hotel. Berta can see he's not alone: he is accompanied by the Devil. So begins a battle between good and evil. Chantal Prym, a young orphan girl, is faced with a choice offered by the stranger. this offer could result in her becoming wealthy and changing her life forever, but for that to happen, she will have to betray one of the key values on which society is based values she believes in. the Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human becomes a terrifying test.

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  2006

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  2002

  $12.28

  A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village - Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. 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.