256 pages
French language
Published Feb. 20, 1945 by Gallimard.
256 pages
French language
Published Feb. 20, 1945 by Gallimard.
This 1936 novel tells the story of an American fishing boat skipper who dabbles in a little smuggling to make ends meet. In need of money for his family the captain reluctantly becomes agrees to smuggle a group of Chinese immigrants from Cuba to Florida. This is Hemingway’s only novel to be set in the United States.