The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking dancing and chasing their illusions in postWorld War I Europe. The man at its centre worldweary journalist Jake Barnes is burdened both by a wound acquired in the war and by his utterly hopeless love for the extravagantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. When Jake Brett and their friends leave Paris behind and converge in Pamplona for the annual festival of the running of the bulls tensions among the various rivals for Bretts wayward affections build to a devastating climax. Hemingway who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 has exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English. His signature prose style tersely powerful and concealing more than it reveals arguably reached its apex in this modernist masterpiece.