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 new novel, Paulo Coelho dramatises the struggle within every soul between light and darkness and its relevance to our everyday efforts to dare to follow our dreams, be different, and master the fear that prevents us from truly living. The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.