num_pages: 314
description: A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric's stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it: Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge.
language: English
title: The Bridge on the Drina
titlecomplete: The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
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: University of Chicago Press