Ernesto: the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba

✍ Scribed by Feldman, Andrew;Hemingway, Ernest

• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 809 KB
• Edition: [1. edition], 1. Melville House printing
• Category: Fiction
• City: Brooklyn, Cuba
• ISBN: 161219639X

✦ Synopsis

From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of "Papa's" life in Cuba
Ernest Hemingway first landed in Cuba in 1928. In some ways he never left. After a decade of visiting regularly, he settled near Coj imar--a tiny fishing village east of Havana--and came to think of himself as Cuban. His daily life among the common people there taught him surprising lessons, and inspired the novel that would rescue his declining career. That book, The Old Man and the Sea , won him a Pulitzer and, one year later, a Nobel Prize. In a rare gesture of humility, Hemingway announced to the press that he accepted the coveted Nobel "as a citizen of Coj imar."
In Ernesto , Andrew Feldman uses his unprecedented access to newly available archives to tell the full story of Hemingway's self-professed Cuban-ness: his respect for Coj imar...

✦ Subjects

Cuba