The Bridge on the Drina
$29.75
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
In this masterpiece of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Yugoslavian author, a stone bridge in a small Bosnian town bears silent witness to three centuries of conflict.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed—until 1914, when tensions in the Balkans triggered the First World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brillia…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594026 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594024 |
| Author: | Ivo Andric, Misha Glenny |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 135mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
In high school, one Saturday, I started reading a book by the Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina. By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever * New Statesman *
Despite its scale, what makes the book extraordinary is the tender insight with which it treats these individual lives, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim or Jewish * Independent *
About The Author
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Visegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina where his book is set. Until 1941 he served as a Yugoslav diplomat, then, placed under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, Andric turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Noble prize for literature. He died in 1975.
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