2004 edition of the famous book from 1926
 
And the sun goes its course is a novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). It was the first of his novels to be published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
 
"Revolves around a handful of free souls in 1920s Paris, where the good and bad conversations are soaked in copious amounts of alcohol. In short: There's talking. And drinking. And talking about how drunk you are, and so on. At times, the reading feels a bit like being the only sober one at a party where everyone else has a rather high blood alcohol level - a bit tiring.
 
In the center is the journalist Jake and his relationship with the woman Brett, but the book is just as much a contemporary portrait of the Paris of the time from the period when Hemingway lived there. It helps to know the city to get the most out of the book. (For more about Hemingway in Paris, read, for example, Sven Egil Omdal's book about Paris, or Hemingway's own A lasting party - young days in Paris.)
 
And the sun takes its course became Hemingway's breakthrough novel. It is more elegant than Farewell to arms, perhaps because the love story is not so heavy on the paw." - Åsmund Ådnøy