Bosnian author Ivo Andric's Tolstoyan epic which takes the reader through the history of the Balkans. First published in 1945; Andric won the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1961. Introduced by Michael Schmidt.

Ivan 'Ivo' Andric (1892-1975) is the author of THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA and other works. He was born to a Croat family in a small Bosnian town near Travnik in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.