The Devil and Miss Prym
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins
<p>A novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.</p>
<p>A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In this stunning 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.</p>
<p>**</p>From Publishers Weekly