by Ivo Andrić · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804403746
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«Il ponte sulla Drina» is the historical novel by Ivo Andrić, published by Mondadori in paperback (402 pages, in Italian).
The novel tells the story of the bridge of Mehmed Paša Sokolović in Višegrad, from its construction in the 16th century to its partial destruction during World War I. Through several generations of the town's inhabitants, Andrić shows the coexistence and tensions of a multicultural community in the Balkans.
The novel, originally published in 1945, appears here in a 1995 Italian edition translated by Bruno Meriggi, in the Oscar classici moderni collection (number 111).
For readers of historical fiction and those interested in the history and culture of the Balkans.
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
