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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By Thornton Wilder

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals--a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child--come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives--snuffed out in one shattering moment--illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2023-08-15
Publication Date:
2023-08-15
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
059347094X
ISBN13:
9780593470947
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
138 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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