This deliciously funny novel had me laughing out loud

A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read

A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship

A pleasure from start to finish

Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry

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