- Contrabando, Ficción, Fiction, Fiction in English
This 1936 novel tells the story of an American fishing boat skipper who dabbles in a little smuggling to make ends meet. In need of money for his family the captain reluctantly becomes agrees to smuggle a group of Chinese immigrants from Cuba to Florida. This is Hemingway’s only novel to be set in the United States.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1741
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd, Editorial Sudamericana, Cape
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- dan, Italian, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9782070362660
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where
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