The Sun Also Rises
A group of American and British expatriates drink their way through Paris and then take a bus to Pamplona for the bullfighting. The narrator is a newspaperman whose war wound has left him unable to have a relationship with the woman he loves, and the novel never names the wound directly.
Hemingway's method is to leave out the explanation and let the dialogue carry it. The result can look flat until you notice how much is being avoided in every exchange. The final chapters in Madrid are quieter than the fiesta scenes, and they are where the book's sadness actually lands.
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First published in 1926. In the United States, works published before 1930 are in the public domain. In the European Union the general term is the life of the author plus 70 years; Ernest Hemingway died in 1961, so the work enters the public domain there in 2032. Check the law where you live before reusing a modern edition, introduction or translation.
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