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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, 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
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length: (cm)17.2 width:(cm)10.5
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如果说有什么作品能让你质疑自己对“正义”一词的固有理解，那这本绝对是其中之一。它不提供廉价的安慰剂，反而像一剂**强效的清醒剂**，直击灵魂深处。作者巧妙地利用环境的局限性，来放大每一个角色内心的冲突和外部施加的压力，从而揭示出在极端环境下，道德的弹性究竟有多大。我特别喜欢那种**文学上的留白**——很多关键的转折或人物的最终命运，作者并未做详尽的交代，而是将解释的责任交还给了读者。这种“开放式结局”的艺术处理，使得故事在合上书页之后仍然在读者的脑海中持续发酵、重组，不断产生新的解读和反思。这是一种**持久的阅读影响**，远超于阅读完一部情节驱动型的小说所能带来的短暂满足感。
评分这本书的**情绪光谱**极为广阔，从最初的宁静到后来的近乎歇斯底里的混乱，作者的笔力令人赞叹。初读时，那种略带**疏离感的环境描写**让人心生警惕，仿佛预示着平静之下必然潜藏着风暴。随着故事的深入，人物之间的关系开始像被拉紧的琴弦，每一个细微的互动都充满了试探和潜在的爆发力。我印象最深的是那种**“宿命感”**的营造，角色们似乎被某种不可抗拒的力量驱使着走向既定的结局，无论他们如何挣扎或试图寻找出路，最终都逃不出那张无形的网。这种无力感是如此真实，以至于在阅读某些关键冲突场面时，我的心跳都不由自主地加速，感同身受那种被命运捉弄的无助。它成功地在探讨宏大议题的同时，没有忽略个体情感的细微波动，这使得整部作品既有理论的深度，又不失打动人心的力量。
评分这部作品带给我一种近乎**眩晕的阅读体验**，仿佛置身于一个被精心编织的道德迷宫之中，每一步都充满了不确定性和深刻的哲学拷问。作者的叙事手法极为高明，他没有急于给出明确的善恶界限，而是像一个冷酷的观察者，将一群性格鲜明、背景迥异的人物抛入一个极端的环境中，然后静静地看着人性在压力下的化学反应。读到那些关于信仰、贪婪与救赎的段落时，我不得不停下来，反复咀嚼那些措辞，思考自己在这般情境下会做出何种选择。这种代入感并非来自轻松愉快的共鸣，而是一种近乎**生理上的不适**——是对自身弱点和潜在黑暗面的审视。小说中的场景描写极其细腻，那种小镇特有的压抑感、空气中弥漫的陈旧气息，都栩栩如生地浮现在眼前，让人感觉自己就是那个无处可逃的旁观者。更令人称道的是，情节推进的节奏感把握得恰到好处，既有缓慢酝酿的张力，也有骤然爆发的震撼，每一次转折都显得既意外又在情理之中，体现出作者对人性复杂性的深刻洞察。
评分这部小说的**结构艺术**堪称一绝，它如同一个精密的钟表，每一个齿轮——无论是旁白、对话还是内心的独白——都在精确地驱动着整体的运转。我欣赏作者对**象征手法的运用**，那些看似不经意的物件或自然现象，都承载着超越其表象的意义，为整个故事增添了一层神秘而富有寓言性的光泽。节奏的控制尤其值得称道，有时它如同急促的鼓点，将人推向高潮；有时又慢得仿佛时间凝滞，专注于展示角色心理的微妙变化，这种强烈的对比有效地调动了读者的情绪起伏。最难能可贵的是，尽管主题沉重，但语言本身却有一种**近乎古典的优雅**，使得阅读过程成为一种美的享受，即使内容令人不安，其文字形式却保持着一种高贵的克制。它不是一本可以被轻松消化的读物，但绝对是值得反复品味和深入研究的佳作。
评分我得承认，这本书的**文学肌理**相当复杂，初读时可能会感到一丝迷惘，因为它毫不留情地撕开了社会表象下的虚伪，直指人性的核心困境。它不像某些畅销小说那样提供清晰的英雄或恶棍画像，而是创造了一系列**灰色地带的殉道者与伪君子**。叙事者采取了一种近乎超然的视角，有时像一个冷峻的记录者，有时又像一个富有洞察力的哲学家，用一种近乎**冰冷的、精确的语言**来剖析角色的动机。文字的密度非常高，许多句子本身就具有强烈的思辨色彩，需要读者投入极大的注意力去解码其中蕴含的深意。我尤其欣赏作者在处理“审判”这一主题时的手法，它超越了法律的范畴，深入到社会集体潜意识的审判庭中，探讨的是那些我们不愿承认却普遍存在的偏见和群体心理。这种深度阅读的体验是久违的，它要求你不仅要跟随故事，更要与其进行一场智力上的角力，读完后，你会发现自己的思维边界被不自觉地拓宽了许多。
评分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。
评分没有 the alchemist 好看
评分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。
评分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
评分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
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