The story spans about four centuries and is in some sense a collection of short stories. What unites the book and becomes in a sense the main "character" is the bridge over the Drina River. Even though everything changes, the bridge remains the same.
/Milica, Serbia & Montenegro

Wonderful book about history of one nation, and destinies of people who are connected with the bridge.
/Andreja, Serbia & Montenegro

If you want to read truly great literature of such a standard that earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature, then you should read 'The Bridge on the Drina'. It is a glorious, utterly fascinating novel and a true monument of literature.
/Željko, Serbia & Montenegro

This novel describes so vividly the passage of history through the perceptions of ordinary people at a site which was truly the crossroads of Europe and Middle Eastern culture. It is even more significant in the present era of wars in the middle east.
/Peter Grant, Canada

This book has a really great value for Serbian people, because it has saved history things like Turkish torture on Serbian people for a few centuries. It talks about it, through the story about a little town on the east of Bosnia and about a bridge ("cuprija") on the river of Drina. It talks about life of people there, and esspecially about hard life of Serbs. In it, it is described how little children were taken from their parents far away to a strange country to be trained to become Turkish warriors. I just think that everyone should read this book couse it is really worth reading.
/Milan Jovic, Serbia & Montenegro

Perfect text, historical chronicle and literary master piece at the same time.
/Tamara Perovic, United Kingdom

Superb.
/Josif Muntean, United States

"It was the generation of rebellious angels, in that short moment of time while they still have all the might and all the rights of angels, and the feisty spirit of rebels." I. Anric, 'Na Drini cuprija' (I'm sorry if the sentence sounds awkward, I was translating from the original.) To be able to write a book about the simple country folk and use such fine language - to have such deep insight into history that you can speak of it with awe - that's what makes a fine author.
/Ida, Croatia

Excellent language, deep knowledge of local history, magnificent descriptions, prophetic words. The best way to understand what is going on in Balcans and beyond.
/Anastasios Kladis, Greece

I agree with the previous comment submitted. The book, in novel-fashion, portrays the lives of people who lived in the vicinity of that bridge, and whose lives were influenced by it. I was thoroughly fascinated by that book.
/Thomas Hofer, United States

I recommend this book because it talks about a 500-year-old bridge, and also about the human lives that pass over it. In which all people's lives are episodes and the life is incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'. P.S. It is the best book that I have ever read (and I read a lot of them).
/Milosh, Serbia & Montenegro