The Old Man and the Sea

von Ernest Hemingway

This is an Egyptian edition of one of the most internationally celebrated works of fiction, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. A Pulitzer Prize and Noble Prize winner, this work has certainly become so extensively known all over the world, receiving a myriad of critical studies and translations. Hemingway himself could have never imagined such a sweeping success for his novel, devised while temporarily staying (for a few weeks) at a fishing village in Cuba. It is not simply the story of a big fish catch, but it is the story of a touching human relationship between old age and younghood, not to mention its highly philosophical message that it carries. All this, apart from other equally significant factors, makes Hemingway's work worth reading and contemplating.