The Devil and Miss Prym

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 of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil?

The remote village of Viscos is the setting for this extraordinary struggle. Berta is the oldest inhabitant of the isolated village and she has a terrifying premonition when she sees a stranger. She can see he is not alone – he is accompanied by the Devil. The stranger carries 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?

The stranger offers Chantal Prym, a young orphan girl, a choice that could make her very wealthy and change her life forever. But for this to happen, she will have to betray the key values on which society is based, values in which she herself believes. And in welcoming this mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.

In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho dramatises the struggle within every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles: to dare to follow our dreams, to have the courage to be different and to master the fear that prevents us from truly living. ‘The Devil And Miss Prym’ is a story charged with emotion as one woman’s integrity is put to a terrifying test and each member of Viscos is forced to choose their destiny and thus the future of their world.