100% NZ-owned | 80,000+ Books In NZ 📚

Order Today and You Could Win a Year of Free Books! 📚✨

Fiesta

The Sun Also Rises
By Ernest Hemingway
0.0 (0 reviews)
3.79 goodreads logo

Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.

Check link for latest rating. ( 485,512 ratings, 23,169 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Summary
Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway, also known as The Sun Also Rises, follows a group of American and British expatriates as they journey from Paris to Spain in the 1920s. Centred on themes of disillusionment after World War I, the novel explores the relationships, personal turmoil, and the search for meaning among a group of friends amidst the backdrop of the lively running of the bulls festival in Pamplona. Hemingway's sharp prose captures the lost generation's attempts to find purpose in a post-war world.
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2300
Elsewhere:
$2499
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you appreciate stories set in post-war Europe that delve into themes of passion, disillusionment, and the pursuit of purpose. With Hemingway's distinctive writing style, it captures the essence of the expatriate lifestyle and the cultural vibrancy of 1920s Paris and Spain. The vivid descriptions and complex characters make it a timeless exploration of the human condition.

Book Hero thinking about your next read

Fiesta

Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and the couple are drawn towards the dazzle and excitement of the Spanish fiesta.

Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Fiesta takes you to Paris in the twenties, a time of Pernod, parties, and expatriate Americans living loosely on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, an aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful woman, whose abandoned and sensuous nature she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain, drawn by the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions and new jealousies. Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway has been praised for its remarkable and disquieting narrative. Critics commend its restrained yet powerful prose, highlighting Hemingway's ability to evoke atmosphere and depth through subtlety. It's lauded as a significant literary achievement and is considered an impressive debut novel by a genius, showcasing uniquely American storytelling.

Book Hero reading reviews

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099908500

Publisher: Cornerstone

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 1994

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 179.0mm

Weight: 127g

Pages: 224

Collections

Ernest Hemingway Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Also by Ernest Hemingway

View all

More from General Fiction

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.