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The Old Man and the Sea
📖 Synopsis
An old Cuban fisherman battles a giant fish alone for days, in a struggle that is also man's against his fate. Hemingway at his purest: dry, deep, essential.
✍️ ChatZona's review
Every sentence seems carved. The book with which Hemingway proved that with very little you can say everything.
🏆 Awards & recognition
🏆Pulitzer Prize 1953
🏆Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 (author)
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