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Ivo andrics the bridge over the drina forces the reader to recognise this. It revolves around the mehmed pasa sokolovic bridge in visegrad, which spans the drina river and stands as a silent witness to history from its construction by the ottomans in the mid16th century until its partial destruction. Seamlessly and breathtakingly, andric juxtaposes the noble, forceful grandeur of an epic with the warm intimacy of a novel. The handsome stone bridge with its terrace and benches was the focal point of the easy visigradians during three and a half turbulent, brutal centuries, from radislav the saboteur who was impaled alive on its parapet to alihodja, the last caretaker.
The bridge over the drina by ivo andric waterstones. It revolves around the mehmed pasa sokolovic bridge in visegrad, which spans. Mohan, des moines sunday register born in bosnia, ivo andric 18921975 was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. The bridge on the drina tells the story of a bridge near the now bosnian town of visegrad, a bridge built by the grand vizier of the turkish empire who had crossed the drina river as a child kidnapped. Andric was awarded the nobel prize in literature for his entire literary work of which this novel is best known in 1961. The bridge over the drina is one of my new favourite books. Buy the bridge over the drina by ivo andric from waterstones today. No better introduction to the study of balkan and ottoman history exists, nor.
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My life took an irrevocable turn in 2001, when i visited the former yugoslavia for the first time and fell in love with the place. Download pdf the bridge on the drina free online new. Ivo andric chronicle of three centuries of balkan life, centering around a great stone bridge in presentday yugoslavia. The bridge on the drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of world war i. It tells the story of a bridge built in visegrad that linked disparate communities from the east and west.
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