Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina | Buch

Cover: 9781841594026 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andric | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch

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The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly illuminates a succession of lives that swirl around the majestic stone arches. Among them is that of the bridge's builder, a Serb kidnapped as a boy by the Ottomans; years later, as the empire's Grand Vezir, he decides to construct a bridge at the spot where he was parted from his mother. A workman named Radisav tries to hinder the construction, with horrific consequences. Later, the beautiful young Fata climbs the bridge's parapet to escape an arranged marriage, and, later still, an inveterate gambler named Milan risks everything on it in one final game with the devil. With humor and compassion, Ivo Andric chronicles the ordinary Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians whose lives are connected by the bridge, in a land that has itself been a bridge between East and West for centuries.

Über den Autor

Ivo Andric (Author)
Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Viegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina where his book is set. Until 1941 he served as a Yugoslav diplomat, then, placed under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, Andric turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Noble prize for literature. He died in 1975.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781841594026
ISBN-10:	1841594024
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Andric, Ivo
Hersteller:	Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	205 x 132 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Ivo Andric
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,566 kg