Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans,loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley,aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuousnature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the headyatmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, newjealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess thewoman he loves. Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel whichestablished Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius