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An American serving in wartime Italy falls in love with an English nurse, finding intimacy increasingly vulnerable to the demands of war.

Literary fiction

Hemingway remembers youthful Paris through cafés, friendship and precarious meals, making daily rituals part of a city's enduring imaginative hold.

Memoir

An American colonel falls in love in postwar Venice, where the city's beauty surrounds a relationship shadowed by his wartime experience.

Literary fiction

Hemingway explores bullfighting’s rituals and his own fascination with the spectacle.

Nonfiction

A bridge-demolition mission tests love and loyalty during Spain’s Civil War.

Historical fiction

A honeymoon in a Camargue fishing village becomes a troubling love triangle, as desire unsettles a young couple's expectations of marriage.

Literary fiction

Paris and Spain frame the restless lives of the postwar lost generation, where friendship and desire travel alongside unresolved disappointment.

Historical fiction

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