The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway , the short novel by Hemingway is one of his masterpieces and revolves around the ordeal and story of an experienced fisherman Santiago who is passing through a rather unlucky phase. The novel brings forth the human elements during the difficulties. The novel has since been adapted in several movies across the world.