East Asian Literary Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's masterwork of spare, powerful prose chronicles an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream. A meditation on dignity, perseverance, and man's relationship with nature, this enduring novella distills life's supreme ordeals into crystalline moments of courage and grace. Simple in language, profound in meaning.

More East Asian Literary Fiction

• Hunger — Choi Jin-young
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima
• Please Look After Mom — Kyung-Sook Shin
• Bestiary — K-Ming Chang
• Sanshirō — Natsume Sōseki
• Girls in the Dark — Rikako Akiyoshi
• Death's End — Cixin Liu
• The Eyes Are the Best Part — Monika Kim

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