Paris in the twenties: Pernod; parties and expatriate Americans; loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley; aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful; but with an abandoned; sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight; their affair is strained by new passions; new jealousies; and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves. Powerful; intense and magnificent; Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius; and set him on the way to being one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century.