Fiesta / In einem andern Land

In one book, two of Ernest Hemingway's most famous novels – The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). Both works represent the pinnacle of Hemingway's work and are key books of 20th-century modernism.

Fiesta (also known as The Sun Also Rises) is Hemingway's first major novel and a portrait of the so-called "lost generation". The story follows a group of American and British expatriates in Paris in the 1920s. The main character Jake Barnes, a journalist and war veteran who has been emotionally and physically scarred by impotence, is in love with Lady Brett Ashley – a vibrant, promiscuous Englishwoman. The group travels to a fiesta in Pamplona, ​​where alcohol, bullfighting and the running of the bulls ignite jealousy, conflict and deep emptiness. The novel uncompromisingly shows the meaninglessness of life after the First World War, hedonism as an escape from trauma and the impossibility of true love and meaning.

A Farewell to Arms is considered Hemingway's most powerful war novel. The story is set in Italy during the First World War. A young American Frederic Henry volunteers as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. In the chaos of war, he falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley. Their passionate but fragile love unfolds against a backdrop of war, retreat, wounding and chaos. The novel is deeply autobiographical – Hemingway himself was wounded in Italy in 1918. Farewell to Arms is a poignant story about love versus the horrors of war, losing illusions and facing death.

Both novels are linked by Hemingway's signature "icy" style - simple, precise language in which much remains unsaid and emotions are felt beneath the surface. Both works depict a generation marked by war, trauma, the meaninglessness of existence and the search for meaning through love, nature, courage and physical experiences.

This joint edition offers an extraordinary insight into Hemingway's world: from Parisian cafes and Spanish fiestas to Italian battlefields and alpine hospitals. Two masterpieces that shaped modern literature and became a symbol of the "lost generation". A perfect read for lovers of classic literature, war prose and stories of human vulnerability.