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Name: The Bridge on the Drina

Author: Ivo Andric
Year: 1945
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Fiction, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9780226020457
0226020452

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 gambler, risks all in one last game on it. With humour and compassion, Andrić chronicles the lives of Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox Christians unable to reconcile their disparate loyalties.

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"Bosnian Chronicle"
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"The Woman from Sarajevo"
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