Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and the couple are drawn towards the dazzle and excitement of the Spanish fiesta.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield ¿ this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war ¿ in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living
on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic
and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that
she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the
fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained
by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will
never possess the woman he loves. Powerful, intense, visually magnificent,
'Fiesta' is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of
genius.
