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| Title | : | The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Ivo Andrić |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 314 pages |
| Published | : | 1977 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. Nobel Prize |
Ivo Andrić
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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.
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| Original Title: | Na Drini ćuprija |
| ISBN: | 0226020452 (ISBN13: 9780226020457) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Bosnian Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Franz Ferdinand, Karađorđe Petrović, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Abidaga, Fata Avdagina, Radisav, Alihodja Mutevelić, Osman Effendi Karamanli, the man from Plvelje, Pop Nikola, Mula Ibrahim, Arif Beg, Shemsibeg Branković, Milan Glasinčanin, Lotte Apfelmaier, Gregor Fedun, Janko Stiković, Fehim Bhatijarević, Nikola Glasičanin, Zorka |
| Setting: | Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia Ottoman Empire |
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Not so good as expected. Perhaps the author haven't guessed what will happen in the Balkans during the bloody war in the 90's.From Wiki:Višegrad (Cyrillic: Вишеград, pronounced [ʋǐʃɛɡraːd]) is a town and municipality in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina resting on the Drina river and in the Republika Srpska entity. The town includes the Ottoman-era Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, an UNESCO world heritage site.Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend our lives. Ivo AndrićPublished in 1945 but written earlier, probably during the war years when Nobel Prize winner Andrić had given up his diplomatic work and was living as quietly as anyone could in Belgrade during those years of upheaval, The Bridge Over the Drina is the rather unusually told history of the town
About five years ago, an American friend of mine, whose book taste I completely respected, told me about this book. He was so enthusiastic I knew someday I would read it, even though I had never heard of the author, never heard of the book, and knew nothing about Bosnia. I never suspected then, that I would eventually be living in Istanbul someday, be familiar with Ottoman history up close, and have walked a historic Mimar Sinan stone bridge with my very own feet. What a book! What an author!
A remarkable book with a grand sweep of almost 500 years from the building of the bridge over the Drina in the 1560s to the First World War. There are human stories throughout interwoven with the political upheavals with various factions gaining and losing ascendancy. In the town Turks, Serbs and Bosnians mix, as do Christians and Muslims. The centre of the bridge is wider and this kapia becomes the meeting point for parts of the community over the centuries. It is the lives, loves and tragedies
Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. Country: Bosnia and HerzegovinaI loved this book!How I felt about it can be summarized in a short form, however, why I felt that way might be a bit harder to explain. Or rather, how I loved it, and not how much.The thing is I'm not sure that anyone who is not from the Balkans would be able to understand me fully. While this world of ours might be full of corruption, uneducated people, bad governments, lawlessness and even backwardness, it's still a very
It has been a few years since I was in Višegrad, sitting in a café on the banks of the Drina, sipping coffee while looking out upon the unbelievably grand, arched bridge that traversed the width of the river. I had come to Višegrad for the same reason I had been to many villages in Bosnia; to discuss war crimes and atrocities that took place more than two decades prior to my even stepping foot in the country. Višegrad like Srebrenica, Prijedor, or Foča evokes a certain consciousness of the
This is a sort of fictionalized history, which the author referred to as a chronicle rather than a novel. It spans about 350 years in the history of Višegrad, Bosnia, telling the story of the town and its Ottoman-era bridge from the 16th century to World War I. The book dips into the lives of individual characters, usually for vignettes of a chapter or less, but focuses more on the general feeling or changes in the town and the reaction of townspeople in general to key events than on particular
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