The Old Man and the Sea

The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. Not a single word is superflous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once and for all established Hemingway's place as one of the giants of modern literature.