Jake Barnes,an ex pat journalist in Paris,is deeply in love with Brett,an English woman who nursed him through injury in the Great War.But it is a love that cannot be fulfilled. Her beauty infatuates Cohn, a Jewish writer and friend of Jakes,and he reads more into a brief flirtation than Brett herself.
Taking a holiday to Spain to watch the week long fiesta and bullrunning with friends, Brett falls in love with Romero the bull fighter and tensions rise....
An absolutely brilliant book. Initially it seems a bit scatter gun-characters come and go and enjoy the party life of ex pats in Paris and everything is described in Hemingway's simultaneously laconic and detailed prose, so that you wonder where your being taken,but the whole story simply builds and builds into an ever more vivid and powerful picture (you really do feel you are there!)and you have one of those rare books that gives you a real high.
The theme of love and wartime is obviously one that haunted Hemingway-he was wounded and nursed in WW1. Its an irony to me now as I loathed 'Farewell to Arms' when I attempted to read it aged 12. I was encouraged to return to Hemingway years later and his whole style and power just hit home big time. 'To Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'Fiesta' both told of wartime love and I rate them as high as I possible can-easy with the other greats I've read- so I'm really looking forward to returning to 'Farewell' to catch all I missed first time. My message is, if you're at a stage where Hemingway sucks for you, please give him another go later. The absolute high his works give are more than worth it.
A fantastic book.
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