The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and British expatriates in 1920s Paris, led by narrator Jake Barnes, a war veteran left impotent from a wound. They drift through a life of drinking, parties, and aimless travel, particularly to Pamplona, Spain, for the bullfights. Jake's deep but unfulfilled love for Lady Brett Ashley-a charismatic, free-spirited woman unable to commit-underscores the group's emotional emptiness. Through sparse, understated prose, the novel captures the disillusionment of the "Lost Generation" and the search for meaning after the trauma of World War I.