<i>Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53291522.here" title="here">here</a></i><br /><br />This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.