The Devil and Miss Prym
Author: Paulo Coelho
Translator: Sang-hae Lee
Publisher: Munhakdongne
254 pages.
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About This Book
Acclaimed Brazilian author Coelho presents the third title in a trilogy that
began with the novels A orillas del Rio Piedra me sent y llore (By
the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, 1998) and Veronika decide
morir (Veronika
Decides to Die, 2000), both of which concern a week in the life
of an ordinary person suddenly confronted with love and death.
Like these two titles, Coelho's new novel reflects his professed belief that the
most profound changes in individuals and in society occur in brief periods of
time, as the result of extreme challenges. In this case, Coelho's fable revolves
around the question of whether people will commit evil in order to gain wealth
and power. After burying some gold in the forest, a visitor arrives in a small
village in the Pyrenees and initiates a power struggle among the villagers by
offering to give them the gold if they kill one of their own. Coelho best
explains the personal crisis of the villagers through the young barmaid Chantal,
who becomes the visitor's messenger and struggles with her choices and beliefs
about good and evil in humankind.
Coelho has been called a New Age writer for his use of allegories, moral
messages, and uplifting life lessons. Although some readers might not agree with
his preaching, the intriguing and fluid plot will keep them interested, just as
it did in his six previous best-selling novels.
-- From Publishers Weekly
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