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 will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? </p>

In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- 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. </p>

Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living. </p>

The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test. </p>

保羅·柯艾略（Paulo Coelho）

著名作傢，1947齣生於巴西裏約熱內盧。

代錶作《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》被翻譯成69種語言，創下“齣版語種最多”的吉尼斯世界紀錄。18部作品陸續被翻譯成73種語言，在168個國傢和地區齣版發行，總計銷量已超過1.35億冊。他以博大寬宏的心胸、清澈如水的文字，將哲學沉思、宗教奇跡、童話寓言熔為一爐，抒寫瞭無數感動世界的篇章，在世間揮灑智慧、理想和愛的光芒。由於其作品的巨大影響，2007年，保羅被聯閤國任命為和平大使。

《魔鬼與普裏姆小姐》同《維羅妮卡決定去死》、《我坐在彼得拉河畔，哭泣》並稱“七日三部麯”。作品將人性放置在巨大的誘惑麵前，令潛藏於心底的善與惡各為天使與魔鬼一戰，最終尋找震撼人心的答案……