Genre
Literary fiction
The Sun Also Rises
A spare modern classic of desire, travel and disillusion.
Details
Subgenre
Lost Generation novel
Original publication
22 October 1926
Original publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pages
251
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
Paris and Spain after the First World War
ISBN
9780743297332
Original title
The Sun Also Rises
About the book
A group of expatriates move through Paris and Pamplona with wit, longing, injury and emotional restraint.
A strong fit for readers asking about the Lost Generation, postwar disillusionment, travel, restraint and modern style.
Hemingway's surface is social and compressed, but the novel is full of damage after the First World War.
It suits readers looking for modernism that feels lean, stylish, mobile and emotionally controlled.
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