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保罗·科埃略最新畅销小说。一座被贪婪、怯懦和恐惧瓜分的城市;一个被往日痛苦之幽灵所困扰的男人;一个寻找幸福的姑娘。在仅仅七天里,决定性的七天里,天使和魔鬼为自己的盟友而战。在这漫长而独特的一周里,每个人都将扮演自己的角色——或善或恶?维斯科斯,一个被遗忘在时空中的小村镇,将是这场跌宕起伏战斗的舞台。当接待了那个神秘莫测的外国人之后,这小城就变成那精心设计的诡计的同谋了,这将在它那为数不多的居民身上留下深深的烙印。他来自遥远的地方,他要找寻一直折磨着自己的问题答案——人本质上是善还是恶?
Book Description
A novel of temptation by Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist and The Zahir, ...
保罗·科埃略最新畅销小说。一座被贪婪、怯懦和恐惧瓜分的城市;一个被往日痛苦之幽灵所困扰的男人;一个寻找幸福的姑娘。在仅仅七天里,决定性的七天里,天使和魔鬼为自己的盟友而战。在这漫长而独特的一周里,每个人都将扮演自己的角色——或善或恶?维斯科斯,一个被遗忘在时空中的小村镇,将是这场跌宕起伏战斗的舞台。当接待了那个神秘莫测的外国人之后,这小城就变成那精心设计的诡计的同谋了,这将在它那为数不多的居民身上留下深深的烙印。他来自遥远的地方,他要找寻一直折磨着自己的问题答案——人本质上是善还是恶?
Book Description
A novel of temptation by Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist and The Zahir, The Devil and Miss Prym is a thought-provoking parable of a community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear, as it struggles with the choice between good and evil.
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answers to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigher, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.
From Publishers Weekly
New to the U.S. but first published in Europe in 1992, Coelho's latest (following the bestselling The Zahir) is an old school parable of good and evil. When a stranger enters the isolated mountain town of Viscos with the devil literally by his side, the widow Berta knows (because her deceased husband, with whom she communicates daily, tells her) that a battle for the town's souls has begun. The stranger, a former arms dealer, calls himself Carlos and proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he'll give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy. Carlos ensures people believe him by choosing the town bartender, the orphan Chantal Prym, as his instrument: he shows her where the gold is, confides that his wife and children have been executed by kidnapper terrorists (remember: 1992), and that he is hoping his belief that people are basically evil will be vindicated. Chantal would like nothing better than to disappear with the gold herself and thus faces her own dilemmas. Add in corrupt townspeople (including a priest), sometimes biting social commentary and, distastefully, a very heavily stereotyped recurring town legend about an Arab named Ahab, and you've got quite a little Garden of Eden potboiler. But the unsatisfying ending lets everyone off the hook and leaves questions hanging like ripe apples. (July 3)
From Booklist
Internationally acclaimed author and contemporary fabulist Coelho concludes his excellent And on the Seventh Day trilogy with another provocative morality tale centered on a "week in the life of ordinary people, all of whom find themselves suddenly confronted by love, death, and power." As in By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1996) and Veronika Decides to Die (2001), the characters who populate the author's fictional village, a moribund community struggling to maintain its ever-elusive spiritual identity, are immediately thrust into the center of the timeless conflict between right and wrong when a stranger bearing 11 bars of gold and accompanied by the devil arrives in Viscos prepared to challenge the citizens of the town with an intriguing moral dilemma. Will the townsfolk succumb to temptation, confirming that man is inherently evil; or will goodness triumph over evil, proving that every human being has the capacity to make his own choices and decide his or her own destiny? These and other philosophical questions are posed by Coehlo in the same mesmerizing, lyrical style he employed in The Alchemist (1993). A natural choice for book clubs and discussion groups.
Margaret Flanagan
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.2 width:(cm)10.5
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保罗·柯艾略 作者
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保罗·柯艾略(Paulo Coelho)
著名作家,1947出生于巴西里约热内卢。
代表作《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》被翻译成69种语言,创下“出版语种最多”的吉尼斯世界纪录。18部作品陆续被翻译成73种语言,在168个国家和地区出版发行,总计销量已超过1.35亿册。他以博大宽宏的心胸、清澈如水的文字,将哲学沉思、宗教奇迹、童话寓言熔为一炉,抒写了无数感动世界的篇章,在世间挥洒智慧、理想和爱的光芒。由于其作品的巨大影响,2007年,保罗被联合国任命为和平大使。
《魔鬼与普里姆小姐》同《维罗妮卡决定去死》、《我坐在彼得拉河畔,哭泣》并称“七日三部曲”。作品将人性放置在巨大的诱惑面前,令潜藏于心底的善与恶各为天使与魔鬼一战,最终寻找震撼人心的答案……
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The Devil and Miss Prym的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 24 条 )
人兽鬼,写在维斯科斯小镇
只是我的疑惑(没读过的不要看,否则会后悔哦)
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一点我没有明白啦,最后尚尔塔为什么独吞了金条呢...三天前她跟外国人不是做过约定,就算没有人死,也是会把十根金条平分给小镇里的每一位居民么,这样尚尔塔只能得到一根的... 难道是因为其实最后人们还是邪恶的想把贝尔达杀死,但是同样出于恐惧而没有这么做?即使是因为这样... (展开)体现在交易中的善于恶
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这是一个关于善与恶斗争的故事,作者是非常善于写作宗教题材,以及利用神话元素的巴西作家保罗·柯艾略,他另外一本有名的作品是风靡全球的《朝圣》。 故事的发生地位于拉美一个国家的边境小山村。在那里并没有受到现代社会的过多影响,人们的生活节奏还是与一个世纪前一样,没... (展开)> 更多书评 24篇
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0 有用 when you feign 2012-01-31 18:12:37
Lo leí en español.
0 有用 soveon- 2022-01-23 16:18:15
在薄荷上与牧羊少年同期阅读的书,今天正好读完了。一场人性善恶的实验
0 有用 psywar 2013-09-12 16:30:55
总觉得结尾有点仓促?突然就以非常世俗的方式解决了问题,也许还是要多看两遍
0 有用 饭泡粥 2017-01-27 10:59:56
Eleven minutes 之后的一本原版小说,是拿来练练英语阅读能力的,文字简单,很适合。故事本身也还可以,前半部分比较悬疑紧凑,后半部分就有点意识流了。
0 有用 JANE 2010-08-08 23:15:16
没有 the alchemist 好看
0 有用 soveon- 2022-01-23 16:18:15
在薄荷上与牧羊少年同期阅读的书,今天正好读完了。一场人性善恶的实验
0 有用 饭泡粥 2017-01-27 10:59:56
Eleven minutes 之后的一本原版小说,是拿来练练英语阅读能力的,文字简单,很适合。故事本身也还可以,前半部分比较悬疑紧凑,后半部分就有点意识流了。
0 有用 psywar 2013-09-12 16:30:55
总觉得结尾有点仓促?突然就以非常世俗的方式解决了问题,也许还是要多看两遍
0 有用 Luesque 2012-10-22 03:39:05
How far could temptation control people?
0 有用 when you feign 2012-01-31 18:12:37
Lo leí en español.