{"product_id":"viejo-y-el-mar-el-td","title":"The Old Man and the Sea","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the greatest stories ever told.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this new and masterful translation by Miguel Temprano García, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e regains all the splendor of the timeless classic that earned Ernest Hemingway the 1953 Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith language of great strength and simplicity, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman whom luck seems to have abandoned, and the colossal challenge he faces: a merciless and relentless battle with a gigantic fish in the waters of the Gulf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in 1952, commissioned by \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, this story confirmed him as one of the most significant writers of the 20th century, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and paving his career towards the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he received in 1954.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«His best work. Time will prove it to be the best that any of us have written, and by that I mean his contemporaries and mine.»\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«The most celebrated American writer since Mark Twain: with him, Yankee literature entered a new dimension.»\u003cbr\u003eJaime G. Mora, \u003ci\u003eABC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«His palette was incredibly broad, and exquisite and violent and brutal and ugly, it was all those things. With all his flaws, with all the difficulties, his personal life or whatever, he seemed to understand the human being.»\u003cbr\u003eMichael Katakis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«When one manages to disassemble a Faulkner, one has the impression that there are springs and screws left over and that it will be impossible to return it to its original state. Hemingway, on the other hand, with less inspiration, less passion and less madness, but with lucid rigor, left his screws visible on the outside, like in train cars. Perhaps that's why Faulkner is a writer who had a lot to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who has had the most to do with my craft.»\u003cbr\u003eGabriel García Márquez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Hemingway left behind an intense life of adventures, emotions and feelings that he managed to convey in his masterful stories. [...] Simple, raw, beautiful and perfect literature. He wrote as he lived, and that allowed him to create his own unique, unmistakable and brilliant style. The Hemingway style.»\u003cbr\u003eJavier García Recio, \u003ci\u003eLa Opinión de Málaga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Few like Hemingway fulfill the proverb \"the writer dies, but his work remains.\"»\u003cbr\u003eVanessa Jaklitsch, \u003ci\u003eLa Razón\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«He looks at the world without prejudice or preconceptions and records with precision and economy, and with an almost terrifying immediacy, exactly what he sees.»\u003cbr\u003eJavier García Recio, \u003ci\u003eLa Opinión\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«His passion for narrating leads him to the selection of reality, to omissions, to minimalist language, to that will to relate the real that becomes his personal poetics and his lyricism.»\u003cbr\u003eRicardo Lladosa, \u003ci\u003eZenda Libros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernest Hemingway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536086827256,"sku":"9788466346849","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P34684B.jpg?v=1671633834","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/viejo-y-el-mar-el-td","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}