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Jasmina Nešković

    By the river Piedra i sat down and wept
    The Devil and Miss Prym
    • By the river Piedra i sat down and wept

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      This is the story of Pilar, an independent and practical yet restless young woman, whose life is forever changed by an encounter with a childhood friend.

      By the river Piedra i sat down and wept2015
      3.7
    • The Devil and Miss Prym

      • 201 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      The new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, told with his usual masterly blend of wisdom, humour, and drama. 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 acts as the devil, setting 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

      The Devil and Miss Prym2003
      3.4