The Old Man and the Sea (Translation - Classics Library) 032

Author: (American) Hemingway, translated by Chen Lao
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: He is an old man who fishes alone in a small flat-bottomed sailboat in the Gulf Stream. This time, he has been out for eighty-four days without catching a single fish. For the first forty days, a boy was with him. But after forty days without catching a fish, the boy's parents told him that the old man must have finally "turned bad luck," meaning he was at the worst point of misfortune. So the boy followed their instructions and went on another boat, catching three good fish in the first week. The boy saw that the old man's boat was always empty when he came back every day...