Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties & expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Just is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that same cannot change.
When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta & the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new jealousies, and jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.
Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as writer of genius.