The Bridge Over the Drina
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2027
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-1-78487-705-7 (ISBN)
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-1-78487-705-7 (ISBN)
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'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New Statesman
There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it.
For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. Radisav, a workman, tries to hinder its construction and is impaled alive on its highest point. Beautiful Fata leaps from its parapet to escape an arranged marriage. Milan, inveterate gamble, risks all in one last game on it.
Spanning generations, nationalities, creeds, and a great stretch of green water, the bridge bears witness to the lives played out on it, connections forged and centuries of conflict.
There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it.
For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. Radisav, a workman, tries to hinder its construction and is impaled alive on its highest point. Beautiful Fata leaps from its parapet to escape an arranged marriage. Milan, inveterate gamble, risks all in one last game on it.
Spanning generations, nationalities, creeds, and a great stretch of green water, the bridge bears witness to the lives played out on it, connections forged and centuries of conflict.
Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia. His parents were Croat and he grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Roman Catholics in Visegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina in which the book is set. Andric served a Yugoslav diplomat until 1941, when he was placed under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, and he turned to writing. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Andric died in 1975.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Lovett F. Edwards |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 350 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78487-705-0 / 1784877050 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78487-705-7 / 9781784877057 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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