Sanna Pernu Books

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

This is a compilation of stories and essays. Pedro Almodovar has established himself with films like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and High Heels, this book features his comic creation Patty Diphusa, the high-class porn queen, who tells stories to make you hair curl. Her memoirs show an inexhaustible capacity for excess, plus a taste for reflection on the human condition. The book includes accompanying essays on film which form a kind of autobiography - particularly How to Become an Internationally Renowned Film Maker - which reflects on Almodovar's career from the early days of Super 8.