num_pages: 429
description: In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. Visegrad has long been a bone of contention between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but the bridge survives unscathed until 1914, when the collision of forces in the Balkans triggers the outbreak of World War I.The bridge spans generations, nationalities and creeds, silent testament to the lives played out on it. 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. With humour and compassion, Andric chronicles the lives of Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox Christians unable to reconcile their disparate loyalties.
language: English
title: The Bridge on the Drina
titlecomplete: The Bridge on the Drina
characters: Radisav, Alihodja Mutevelić, Fata Avdagina, Fehim Bhatijarević, Shemsibeg Branković, Arif Beg, Nikola Glasičanin, Karađorđe Petrović, Mula Ibrahim, Abidaga, Pop Nikola, Zorka, Lotte Apfelmaier, Osman Effendi Karamanli, Franz Ferdinand, the man from Plvelje, Janko Stiković, Milan Glasinčanin, Gregor Fedun, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 20191
places: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Bosnia
series: Bosnian Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion
publisher: Signet