My choice by Evandro Alves: The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway

This is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, that helped him to win a Nobel prize.
The book tells a story of an old fisherman named Santiago, who went to sea eighty four days
without fishing anything. Santiago has a young pupil named Manolin. His parents prohibited him
of going to fish with Santiago, because of his lack of luck, and, instead, ordered him to go with
other luckier fishermen.
Anyway, Manolin continued to help Santiago in the morning leaving him coffee and the bait. During the night he helped Santiago getting his gear out of the boat and they talked about baseball and his idol player: DiMaggio.
On the eighty fifth day, once again Santiago set sail, but this time he decided to go farther away into the gulf (he felt that his lack of luck was about to end). On that day, by noon, a marlin took his bait and the journey began...
What happened next is something of real emotion and adventure which can only be understood and felt by reading it...
Just one last note: I loved to read the Portuguese version of the book, but I would love to get my hands (and eyes) on the original one.