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.
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The Bridge on the Drina (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)
von Ivo Andric
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.
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Rezension von EvaThis one is hard to describe. It was hardly recommended from a bosnian friend. About History, about the bosnian people. The common thread is the bridge and its influence on the city by the bridge. Starting with the building of the bridge, about individual fates and often examples of people in the different times, always on the background of events of the time. Its said its the country where people live together harmoniously with three different religions. But this picture does not seem coherent to me, its more the opposite. People are divided into the groups of their religions. The country is known by war and conflict. And this had its effect on the people, they are suspicious of anything new, against any change or progress. They seem to live so much in their world that they are slow to accept any development. I thougt it will help me understand this bosnian kind of view on the world and on their own country. Maybe it helps partly. But for me its not the best picture to get of this people. I am not quite clear in the end which group of people actually identify themselves as Bosnians. The book is interesting, no question about that, and for sure a important work on history of this part of the world. Its for everybody interested about Yugoslavia and their history.