num_pages: 314
description: 'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New StatesmanThere 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.
language: English
title: The Bridge Over the Drina
titlecomplete: The Bridge Over 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: The Harvill Press