This novel is the quest of a man to find the basic human nature;whether it was good or evil.To get answer to this question,he comes to the village of Viscos.
The village has a proud past,but at present is dying.All the youngsters have moved to to the city leaving the middle aged shepherds and farmers behind.When a stranger comes to the village,only the old Berta sees his invisible companion,the devil.He invites the young lady,Chantal Prym for a walk in the woods and shows her 2 pits one with a gold bar and the other with ten of them.As she was the barmaid,now she was entrusted with the duty of spreading this news throughout the village.He puts forward a condition that the villagers can have the gold all by themselves if they murdered someone in the village.At first she refused to tell this to anyone,but at last she cleverly reveals the challenge in front of the villagers.
The stranger who calls himself Carlos wanted to know whether the people would go to the extent of killing someone for their personal gains.His aim was to prove that humans were devil-minded in the deep heart's core.Ever after the terrible past of the stranger,where his innocent wife and children were killed by the terrorist,he has this eternal conflict between the good and evil in his mind.Will the town folks succumb temptation,confirming that man is inherently evil?Or will goodness triumph over evil,proving that every human has the capability to make his own choices and decide his or her destiny? These are the questions that the novel arouses in the readers.
Chantal,his instrument also wants to escape with the gold to some other place and make a living and that is what happens at the end.People are tempted in the probability of a prosperous life and it brings out the devil in them.
The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion ,which captures the reader's attention with every passing line right from the beginning.
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