An American volunteer is ordered to blow a bridge behind enemy lines during the Spanish Civil War, and he has three days in which to do it.
Hemingway places Robert Jordan among a guerrilla band in the mountains and compresses the whole novel into that short span, alternating action with argument about loyalty, duty and what the fighting is doing to the people caught in it. The prose is spare, the dialogue carries a deliberately rendered cadence, and the ending arrives without consolation. This RHUK paperback runs to 496 pages.
Notable aspects:
• A compressed three-day structure set behind enemy lines
• Spanish Civil War politics seen from inside a guerrilla unit
• Hemingway's stripped prose and distinctive rendered dialogue
• A 496-page RHUK paperback
For readers of twentieth-century classics and war fiction, published by RHUK and available from Boipoka.
নতুন-1% ছাড়
