devil & miss prym, the (translation) [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2005] PAOLO COELHO

Paulo Coelho,Amanda Hopkinson,Nick Caistor

ISBN 10: 8172235151 / ISBN 13: 9788172235154

Published by HarperCollins India, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: devil & miss prym, the (translation) [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2005] PAOLO COELHO
• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8172235151
• ISBN 13: 9788172235154
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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. 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. In this stunning 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

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A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the ans-wer 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.

A novel of temptation by the internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym is a thought-provoking parable of a community dev-oured by greed, cowardice, and fear—as it struggles with the choice between good and evil.