Yuan Xing Translation Series: the Truth under the First Dawn
About This Novel
This book was originally an untitled manuscript written by Hemingway in Cuba after returning from a safari in East Africa from 1953 to 1954. The writing process was interrupted several times and was ultimately not completed. In 1999, the 800-page manuscript was compiled and published by his son Patrick on the occasion of the centenary of Hemingway's birth. Hemingway's close friend "Old Man" was a legendary hunter who asked Hemingway to take over the safari camp after Hemingway came to Africa for the second time. At this time, tensions were rising among the several tribes, and it was rumored that a group of Kamba people who had escaped detention and sworn to join the Mau Mau movement were threatening to attack Hemingway's camp. Hemingway, on the one hand, shoulders the responsibilities of a leader, and on the other hand, he has to help his wife hunt down a lion before Christmas. In Africa, what is real at first light becomes an illusion by midday. Later, the attack that the Kamba people claimed to launch dissipated like the morning mist illuminated by the dawn.
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