"The Devil and Miss Prym is a simple tale, with the meaning of life
and spiritual guidance at its core."
-- The Guardian
A community divided by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man haunted by the
ghost of a painful past. A young woman in search of happiness. 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. The small village of Viscos is the setting for this disturbing
fight. With the arrival of a foreigner, the entire town becomes an
accomplice in a perverse plot that will forever mark the history of its
inhabitants.
The foreigner has traveled from far away and needs to find the answer to
a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or
evil? At once an evocative novel and a suspenseful page-turner, The
Devil and Miss Prym captures one moment in our eternal struggle for
self-knowledge, asking a question that all of us have stopped to reflect
on at some point: What is the essence of the human being?