The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1926. It was his first novel.

This book is set between France and Spain in the interwar period, after the First World War, and it describes a set of characters that belong to the so-called Lost Generation.

Jake Barnes is an American journalist, who is wounded in the war and has been left impotent. He had a relationship with the nurse Brett Ashley during the war and both meet again after the war in Paris where they establish a relationship with the American community, said group having a great importance at the beginning of the novel.

From there, Jake and Brett travel to the Spanish city of Pamplona with a group of friends for the festival of San Fermín, with its bull running and its bullfights. There, a series of love problems will take place around Brett and they will meet Pedro Romero, a promising bullfighter.

The Sun Also Rises established Hemingway's reputation, and it was made into a film in 1957 by Henry King.

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