內容簡介
諾貝爾文學獎得主海明威第一本長篇小說
寫下戰後無奈的失落，翻拍成同名電影《太陽依舊升起》
她愛他，但他們無法結合；他也愛她，只好看她投入一個又一個男人的懷抱，代替自己撫慰她空虛渴愛的心。
暫居巴黎的記者傑克‧巴恩斯因為戰爭失去性能力，一天他和朋友科恩去夜總會，遇見迷人卻聲名狼藉的英國女子柏蕾特‧艾許利，她推崇開放男女關係、正在和前夫打離婚官司。雖然柏蕾特對傑克傾訴自己的愛意，但兩人內心都知道，這段關係無法維持太久。
對傑克來說，他知道自己無法完全滿足柏蕾特的床第需求，故他選擇讓柏蕾特繼續複雜的男女關係，兩人和傑克的朋友一起前往去西班牙北部的潘普洛納旅行，卻在路途中「巧遇」科恩，科恩和柏蕾特過去曾有一段情，雖然柏蕾特已經和未婚夫麥克‧坎貝爾訂婚，但科恩卻無法放下。一群人在潘普洛納又與麥克相會，奔牛節慶典期間，柏蕾特又認識了19歲的年輕鬥牛士羅梅羅，英俊帥氣的羅梅羅立刻吸引柏蕾特，卻讓複雜的情感關係如走鋼索般更加危險，一場無可避免的衝突即將爆發...
海明威一如往常維持他「冰山理論」的寫作風格，用簡約的文字和有限的詞彙描述角色的性格和動作，隱含的是小人物面對時代巨變下的失落與無奈，和與對愛情的迷惘。當時戰後美國對法國有匯差優勢，許多美國文人紛紛前往巴黎，嚮往法國自由的文壇風氣，包含當時在美國禁止出版的《尤利西00斯》的作者喬伊斯、費茲傑羅、海明威等人。一戰後的美國，面對經濟逐漸衰敗和不確定感，瀰漫一股對未來的失落，也被稱為「失落的一代」，海明威在小說中刻畫出美國僑民對生活的厭倦與困惑，同時也具有道德寓意，但如同書最前面的兩段提詞，引用《聖經》傳道書中的一段話，表示儘管一代接著一代在改變，太陽升起又落下，不變的永遠是生存的土地，就算一時對生命迷惘，還是會找到出路。
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作者介紹
Verna Kale is an Associate Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. She is the author of a biography of Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, part of the Critical Lives series; editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender; and co-editor, with Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel, of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6 (1934–1936).
