Ivo Andric

Broschiertes Buch

The Bridge Over the Drina

Beschreibung

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict.

Autor

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 133mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781860460586
• ISBN-10: 1860460585
• Artikelnr.: 21231985