Book of Month: June 2023

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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Year: 2009

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was his last major work of fiction. The story centers on an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin. Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won over loss. The novella portrays how perseverance and dignity can help one battle through struggles in life. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

This Arabic version has been translated by Ghobrial Wahba.

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