LES MISERABLES, V. HugoSet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. The best story Hemingway has written No page of this beautiful masterwork could have been done better Sunday Times Paperback, 848 pages.