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 Paulo Coelho in general
Newest Review: ... Chantal Prym is a young and rather beautiful barmaid in the sleepy ?perfect? village of Viscos (I presume situated in Brazil). We get the impression she is bored of the idyllic scenery and slow place of life. Regularly she takes a fancy to passing tourists and easily seduces them to her bed in the hope that one of them ? just one of them will prove to be her escape root. Miss Prym has edges, ... more  ... she's not wholly likeable but the reader can also understand some of her frustrations. The village seems to have rules and Chantal wants to break them. Berta is an old women. She sits outside her house everyday and watches the world go back whil...more |
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Paulo Coelho in general: The Devil and Miss Prym (925 words)
by - written on 23/06/03 (Very useful, 2109 readings)
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"Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil" The Devil and Miss Prym is one of the highly successful spiritual novels by Brazilian born Paulo Coelho. It is last in the trilogy that concentrates on a week in the life of a person and the life-changing occurrence that can happen in so short a time. The first two books in the trilogy are By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept and Veronika Decides to Die. It seems hard to believe that when Coelho first presented The Alchemist (the novel that made him famous all over the world) his then publishing company were not particularly impressed . After only 900 ... Read the complete review
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