Der alte Mann und das Meer

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and explicitly mentioned by the Nobel Prize jury a year later: Hemingway's captivating novella about the Cuban fisherman Santiago. Alone, he sets out to sea in a small rowboat. His young helper has been sent to another boat, and the parents say the old man is cursed by misfortune. However, after Santiago has waited in vain for eighty-four days to catch anything, a large fish bites and pulls him out into the open sea. An unequal struggle begins...