The Bridge on the Drina
By: Ivo Andrić ; translated from the Serbo-Croat by Lovett F. Edwards ; with an introd. by William H. McNeill.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: hbs
Translation of: Na Drini ćuprija
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780226020457
Copyright date: 1959, 1977
Subjects: Historic bridges -- Fiction.; Višegrad (Bosnia and Hercegovina : East) -- History -- Fiction.
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 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 Ivo Andric's 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.
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