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Book Review: The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

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  https://www.amazon.in/Old-Man-Sea-Children-Classics/dp/9380005334     ‘ The Old Man and The Sea’ is an adventure novel written by Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American author and Journalist. This novel is the most phenomenal work of Hemingway, which brought him winning a Pulitzer Prize  in 1952 and a Nobel Prize  in 1954. This novel also became the last novel that Hemingway wrote. In his career as an author, Hemingway has published seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two nonfictions. Another works of him such as, “The Sun Also Rises”, “A Farewell to Arms”, “From Whom The Bell Tolls”, and others.        This novel tells a story about an old Cuba fisherman, Santiago, who spends eighty-five days on his boat for sailing. He is being called as ‘salao’ which means the worst version of unluckiness. Santiago has a young apprentice, Manolin. Manolin uses to go sailing with Santiago, but since his parents forbid him to stay with Santiago any longer, so Santiago decides to go by