Fiesta: The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway📖

Summary of Fiesta: The Sun also Rises

“Fiesta: The Sun also Rises” follows a group of American and British expats in the 1920s as they travel from Paris to Spain to go fishing in the Pyrenees and to attend the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, famous for the running of the bulls in the streets. At the heart of the novel is the tragic love affair between Jake, an American war veteran, and Brett, an English ‘femme fatale’.

Reasons to read Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

“Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises” is Hemingway’s debut novel and is widely regarded as a modern classic, often appearing on lists of the best novels of the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. “Fiesta” played a significant role in popularising the Fiestas de San Fermín, which take place every year in Pamplona in early July. This novel is generally considered one of Hemingway’s finest works. He wrote many more books about Spain, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (set during the Spanish Civil War) and “Death in the Afternoon”. Some other notable works by Hemingway are “A Farewell to Armes”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, and “A Moveable Feast”.

Setting: Pamplona & Burguete (Spain) & Paris (France)

Original title: Fiesta: The Sun also Rises

Year of publication: 1926

Nr of pages: 272