Book 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…
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1 author picked The Bridge Over the Drina as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a Nobel Prize for Literature-winning book that is a must-read for historical fiction enthusiasts.
Spanning some four hundred years, the centerpiece isn’t the usual high drama running across generations of a family but rather a bridge, the bridge over the river Drina.
The book is a surprisingly easy-to-read novel that follows periods in the lives of the peasants in a Bosnian town whose lives were marked by the bridge.
Through the telling of these stories, Andric subtly introduces the reader to the empires, religions, and cultures of the Balkans.
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