Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Mao: The Unknown Story and the memoir Wild Swans. Her latest book is Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China.One of Chang's six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayRead about another book on the list.
Written in the simplest language and with not a wasted word, this sublime book moved me to an almost unbearable degree when I first read it. The old man, his friend the boy, his fish (with whom he has such a complexrelationship), and the great sea — I care about them all, and they are indelibly etched into my brain.
The Old Man and the Sea is among Kathryn Williams's thirteen best stories about pride, Scott Greenstone's twenty best books with fewer than 200 pages, Michael Palin's six favorite books, Robson Green's six best books, and Dave Boling's five best examples of how to structure a novel. N.M. Kelby has suggested that The Old Man and the Sea may be The Great Florida Novel.
--Marshal Zeringue
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