Te Koroua me te Moana

He tuhinga rongonui nā Hemingway e pā ana ki tētahi koroua, ki tētahi tama me tētahi ika kaitā – kua whakamāoritia.

Kei ngā hihi pūkākā o te rā, kei tētahi kāinga pakupaku i te takutai o Hawāna tētahi koroua hī ika e noho ana, ko Hanatīako tōna ingoa. Kua waru tekau mā whā rā te roa kāore i mau i a ia he ika. E mea ana te iwi o reira he kirihaunga. I runga i tōna manawa kai roke, ka haere takitahi atu a Hanatīako i runga i tōna poti iti ka hī ika ai ki tua atu o ngā taunga ika i haere ai ia i mua. I roto i te roa o ngā rā, ka whakamātautauria rawatia tōna manawa ū me tōna mārohirohi.

I toa i te tuhinga poto nei nā Hemingway te taonga Pulitzer Prize i te wāhanga Pakimaero, ā, nā tēnei i hua mai ai tana toanga Nobel Prize i te tau 1954 i te wāhanga Mātātuhi. Ko Te Koroua me te Moana tētahi tuhinga nā te ringa rehe i waihanga, he tirohanga motuhake hoki ki tā te tangata kotahi whakapātaritari i ngā mana o te ao.

Hemingway’s classic story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish – now translated into te reo Māori.

In the baking sun, in a small village off the coast of Havana, lives an old fisherman named Santiago. It has been eighty-four days since he last caught a fish. The locals call it bad luck. Refusing to accept defeat, Santiago sets off in his tiny skiff alone, fishing further out than ever before. Over a number of days his will and his character are tested beyond imagination.

Hemingway’s classic short novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and directly led to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The Old Man and the Sea is a perfectly crafted story and a unique vision of one man’s challenge to the elements.