The Sun Also Rises

A novel of the 1920s following a group of British and American expatriates from the cafes of Paris to the bullfights of Pamplona in Spain. The narrator, Jake Barnes, is a journalist marked by a war wound, and he is in love with the glamorous Lady Brett Ashley, who attracts many men. Drink, travel and restless talk fill the days, while the characters struggle to find purpose after the First World War. Written in plain, restrained prose, it made Hemingway's name and became a defining portrait of the so-called Lost Generation.