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The Devil and Miss Prym : a novel of temptation / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor.

by Coelho, Paulo.

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HarperCollins, c2006.

Good and evil -- Fiction.

Temptation -- Fiction.

Integrity -- Fiction.

Corruption -- Fiction.

9780060527990 (hardcover)

0060527994 (hardcover)

9780060528003 (2007 HarperPerennial trade pbk.) (LRP)

Demônio e a Srta. Prym. English English

205 p. ; 22 cm.

First published in Europe in 1992.

"A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living. The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test."--Inside jacket.

Psychological fiction.

Social commentary fiction.

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