num_pages: 314
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 over the Drina
titlecomplete: The Bridge over the Drina
characters: Nikola Glasičanin, Osman Effendi Karamanli, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Fata Avdagina, Karađorđe Petrović, Gregor Fedun, Abidaga, Arif Beg, Mula Ibrahim, Franz Ferdinand, Radisav, Zorka, Fehim Bhatijarević, Alihodja Mutevelić, Pop Nikola, Shemsibeg Branković, Lotte Apfelmaier, Janko Stiković, Milan Glasinčanin, the man from Plvelje
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Historical, Nobel Prize, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 20197
places: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkans, Ottoman Empire, Bosnia
series: Bosnian Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion
publisher: Harvill / HarperCollins