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Like all good books The Old Man and the Sea can be read on a number of levels and the themes are as timely now as they were when it was written by Ernest Hemingway in 1951. It is the story of an experienced, i.e. old, fisherman called Santiago who manages to catch a hefty marlin after an 84-day barren stretch has left him with the label of a "salao", someone with luck of the worst kind. In order to break his maritime drought, he heads out into the Gulf Stream in search of a big haul.
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