Drina Bridge: A Novel [Hardcover]

Jim Bartley (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Raincoast Books; 1 edition (July 13 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1551929597
ISBN-13: 978-1551929590
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #747,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The first page is shocking, but take a deep breath and read on: It's worth it. ...Drina Bridge is an adventure, a spiritual quest and a love story, but most of all it's an undeniable anti-war story. ...gripping...richly drawn characters...wonderfully developed. -- The Globe and Mail, September 23 2006

When thorough research and inspired imagination collide in fiction, there's nothing better. Drina Bridge demonstrates that magic combination. ...deliciously erotic...harrowing...a dual narrative running on themes of love and loss. -- Xtra Magazine, Toronto, September 14 2006

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Drina Bridge is a beautifully told story of faith and loss during the 1993 Serbian-Bosnian conflict. Recovering from his lover Pimm's death, Chris travels to Yugoslavia with Pimm's faded birth papers, hoping to uncover his past. He's led to a monastery in a Western Serbian town. Just beyond the border, in Bosnia, brutal war rages.

Meanwhile, Slobodan Kusic, a 60-year-old refugee raised in Bosnia and Serbia, is a patient in a Sarajevo hospital. Scarred and embittered, he types his memoir. Chris learns of this manuscript--a fascinating portal into Yugoslavia's labyrinth and a possible clue to Pimm's past.

Chris' time in Serbia stretches into a three-year personal and spiritual journey involving an illicit love affair, a link to Slobodan's childhood and a harrowing trip into Bosnia.

Drina Bridge is a remarkable story of suffering, and of the limits of human cruelty and endurance seen through the eyes of two different men, each seeking peace in a landscape of war.

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