Word: drina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BRIDGE ON THE DRINA, by Ivo Andric...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. A Yugoslav author's history-haunted elegy to his native land...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history in an account of the idlers and warriors who passed over a beautiful stone bridge...
...Andrić lived in retirement in Nazi-occupied Belgrade. It is richly peopled and suffused with an ironic yet loving view of man. To Andrić there is always the hope that "if they destroy here, then somewhere is building. If God had abandoned this unlucky town on the Drina, he had surely not abandoned the whole world that was beneath the skies. They would not do this forever...