The Three Arched Bridge
by:
Ismail Kadaré (author)
In a parable based on the current situation in the Balkans, a novel by a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature tells of a fourteenth-century mason who believes he must sacrifice his wife to complete a bridge across Eastern Europe.
In a parable based on the current situation in the Balkans, a novel by a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature tells of a fourteenth-century mason who believes he must sacrifice his wife to complete a bridge across Eastern Europe.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781559703680 (1559703687)
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
A different bridge, a different river and a different time but the story of this book's bridge and the story of the bridge depicted by the Bosnian author Ivo Andric in The Bridge on the Drina are ultimately the same. I prefer Andric's story. There is a beauty in Andric's story that shines. Here deso...