"The Bridge on the Drina" is not just an important novel. It is a Balkan chronicle of four centuries of history, four religions, and three ethnicities sharing the same place, the town of Višegrad in Bosnia. At the center of it all is the bridge, immovable from its position, like destiny that runs sometimes bright and sometimes dark through human lives. Only by reading this prophetic work can one truly understand the tragic events of recent years in Bosnia and discern the human forces that have always operated beneath the multiethnic crust and the mosaic of religions. The masterpiece of the great Nobel laureate author.