

Viscos, a community divided by greed, cowardice, and fear.
The stranger, a man haunted by the ghost of a painful past.
Chantal Prym, a young orphan girl, who spends her time day-dreaming while hard at work in the hotel bar, is the one he chooses. Seven days, a short period during which good and evil will wage a decisive battle, and each character will decide on which of the two sides they belong. With the arrival of the foreigner, the entire town becomes an accomplice in a perverse plot that will forever mark the history of its inhabitants.
The man has travelled far and long, in need to find the answer to a question that torments him: in its essence, is mankind good or evil? If Evil triumphs, even in a tiny, forgotten village, its victory could spread to the valley, the local region, the entire country, the continent, the seven seas, the whole world.
At once an evocative novel and a suspenseful page-turner, The Devil and Miss Prym delves into the struggle within every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our daily lives: daring to follow our dreams, having the courage to be different, and mastering the fear that holds us back from truly living.
The Devil and Miss Prym concludes the trilogy “And on the Seventh Day”.
YEAR OF PUBLICATION:
2000
PAGES:
200
RIGHTS SOLD:
44 languages
“The everlasting battle between Good and Evil is to be found in this symbolic, moving fable which justifies Coelho’s success worldwide.”
- Woman magazine
“At the end of the labyrinth, Paulo Coelho always puts on a light.”
- Il Corriere della Sera

“I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.”
- Paulo Coelho
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether to accept our destiny.