Berta is an old woman who’s husband died fifteen years before in a hunting accident and has sat at her door watching the village and the countryside ever since. She works as a barmaid in the local hotel where visitors come for the hunting season and she often dreams that one of them will take her away for the repetitive life she leads. She is pretty much the only young person left and like her peers she wants to leave for a better life elsewhere. Chantal Prym is a disaffected young woman who has lived in the village all of her life. The Devil and Miss Prym is set in the village of Viscos and is a story of good versus evil and the temptations presented to us in life. It is certainly true that spirituality is core to this story, but it cannot truly be said to be “hippie”. I was aware of The Alchemist, but had somehow managed to get the idea into my head that Coelho was a “spiritual” type of writer. This is the first novel by Paulo Coelho that I have read.
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