It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many

A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish

The best story Hemingway has written...No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently.

A very good and varied collection, with delightful oddities

Unfailingly honest

Andric possess the rare gift in a historical novelist of creating a period-piece, full of local colour, and at the same time characters who might have been living today

Just as the bridge on the Drina brought East and West together so your work has acted as a link, combining the culture of your country with other parts of the planet