For the World Heritage Site, see Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge.
The Bridge on the Drina
First edition cover
Author
Ivo Andrić
Original title
Na Drini ćuprija
Country
Yugoslavia
Language
Serbo-Croatian
Genre
Historical fiction
Publisher
Prosveta
Publication date
March 1945
Pages
318
The Bridge on the Drina[a] is a historical novel by the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić. It revolves around the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, which spans the Drina River and stands as a silent witness to history from its construction by the Ottomans in the mid-16th century until its partial destruction during World War I. The story spans about four centuries and covers the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian occupations of the region, with a particular emphasis on the lives, destinies, and relations of the local inhabitants, especially Serbs and Bosnian Muslims.
Andrić had been Yugoslavia's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to 1941, during the early years of World War II, and was arrested by the Germans in April 1941, following the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. In June 1941, he was allowed to return to German-occupied Belgrade but was confined to a friend's apartment in conditions that some biographers liken to house arrest. The novel was one of three that Andrić wrote over the next several years. All three were published in short succession in 1945, following Belgrade's liberation from the Germans. The Bridge on the Drina was published in March of that year to widespread acclaim.
In 1961, Andrić was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and his works became subject to international recognition, while at the same time, he expressed a desire for the original manuscript to be donated to the city of Sarajevo, where the Museum of Literature was established. The Bridge on the Drina remains Andrić's best-known work. The Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica is planning a cinematic adaption of the novel, for which he has constructed a mock-town named after Andrić not far from the bridge, which was reconstructed after World War I and has been declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by KONS and World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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