A Farewell To Arms

After reading “To Have and Have Not” I was kind of done with Hemingway. Thus when a friend of mine suggested this book I was hesitant to say the least.

What a pleasant surprise I found waiting in the book for me. A story of war, a story of romance. And little of the selfish one can find in the above mentioned.

This book takes you to the depths of the Great War. Hemingway semi-autobiographically has made a first person character who is an ambulance driver at the Italian war front.
The Great War always baffles me, as it seems no-one was really keen on fighting and no-one knew exactly what was going in. This book exemplifies this perfectly.

The subtle and the featherweight sentences of Hemingway convey more power than other hefty and lengthy sentences by other greats in literature. A good book, a beautiful story.