The Bridge on the Drina

Ivo Andric

ISBN 10: 8661051061 / ISBN 13: 9788661051067

Published by Sezam Book d.o.o. Zrenjanin, Drvarska 5 Republika Srpska, 2015

About this Item

First edition thus (preceded by the 1945 Yugoslavia hardcover release among others) first printing of a fine hardcover with no jacket as issued. A historical novel, revolving around the Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic bridge in Visegrad R.S. with spans the Drina river. The story spans about 4 centuries and covers the Ottoman and and Austro-Hungarian occupations of the region.

Seller Inventory # 1426

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bridge on the Drina
• Publisher: Sezam Book d.o.o. Zrenjanin, Drvarska 5 Republika Srpska
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: Serbian
• ISBN 10: 8661051061
• ISBN 13: 9788661051067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New StatesmanThere is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it.For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. 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 gamble, risks all in one last game on it. Spanning generations, nationalities, creeds, and a great stretch of green water, the bridge bears witness to the lives played out on it, connections forged and centuries of conflict.