A new novel from Paulo Coelho‎,‎ author of The Alchemist‎.‎ A stranger arrives in the small mountain village‎.‎ He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars‎.‎ 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.‎ In this stunning new 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.‎