The Bridge on the Drina

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.

About the author

Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Višegrad, 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ivo Andric, Andric Ivo
• Assisted by: Misha Glenny (Introduction), Glenny Misha (Introduction)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2021
• EAN: 9781841594026
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-402-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 212 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Local History, Serbo-Croatian, the bridge on the drina