Author:Anthony Trollope,Frank Kermode,Frank Kermode,Frank Kermode
Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit - which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury - begins to unravel. A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.
In high school, one Saturday, I started reading a book by the Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina. By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever
—— Elif Shafak , New StatesmanDespite its scale, what makes the book extraordinary is the tender insight with which it treats these individual lives, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim or Jewish
—— Fiona Sampson , IndependentPerhaps the most widely translated Yugoslav book since the last war is Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina... No better example could have been selected with which to introduce the American public to contemporary Yugoslav prose
—— New York TimesThe best kind of fictionalised history
—— Daily TelegraphThe wealth and variety of its fictional elements carry it so far beyond the confines of a straightforward novel, it cannot be limited to such a description. It puts one in mind of a collection of tales, but no collection of tales (not even A Thousand and One Nights or Washington Irving's stories) ever possessed such a unity and continuity of theme
—— George Perec , Le MondeAndric 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
—— Times Literary SupplementJust 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
—— Göran Liljestrand, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member
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