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The Bridge on the Drina

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The Bridge on the Drina	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Bridge On the Drina (original title: Na Drini Ćuprija) is a 1945 novel by the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić, which won him the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.In November 1516, an Ottoman expedition was passing through the backwater Bosnian town of Višegrad, collecting, to the horror of the local Serbian families, the feared Devshirme, or "Tribute in Blood". Exceptionally able and intelligent Christian prepubescent boys were taken away to Istanbul in order to be trained as Janissaries, the elite corps of the Ottoman army, dedicated to serve the Sultan until death. One of those boys, the ten year old Bajo, quickly managed to rise through the ranks of the Ottoman Empire, ultimately becoming the famed Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, the most powerful man in the Empire after the Sultan himself. Unlike most other Janissaries, the Training from Hell didn’t manage to erase the memories of his childhood home and, in order to repay his roots, he orders a bridge to be built over the wild river of Drina, connecting Bosnia to Serbia and the rest of Ottoman territories, that would be the envy of the whole empire.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Thus begins this novel, considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of Balkan literature, written as a chronicle of the town of Višegrad, spanning across several centuries, from the beginning of the bridge’s construction in 1571, to the start of the First World War in 1914. It is notable for containing countless Story Arcs, written from the perspectives of its huge cast of vibrant characters, of different ethnicities, beliefs and personalities, with the bridge itself being what bridges all of the characters and subplots together.An implicit critic of Balkan nationalism, this novel is considered a must-read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the conflicts still going on in this troubled region.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_1cfd9ec9	type	Never Recycle a Building
The Bridge on the Drina / int_1cfd9ec9	comment	Never Recycle a Building: After its abandonment, The Stony Han is left decaying for centuries. Subverted, as the Austrians eventually tear it down and use the building material for building a barracks.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Bridge on the Drina / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Radisav the saboteur is publicly staked as a warning to other workers.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Bridge on the Drina / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The executioner whose job is decapitating and staking the heads of Serbian rebels during the First Serbian Uprising is actually quite a pleasant and respected fellow, who views his job as a craft and tries to make the execution as painless as possible for his victims.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Bridge on the Drina / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: A young and educated teacher of Islam, one of the most respected townspeople, is trying to write a chronicle of the town during his lifetime, but dismisses most events since he thinks that they are unworthy of him and his book. He dies of old age, with the chronicle being less than five pages long.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_29117c30	type	Opposites Attract Revenge
The Bridge on the Drina / int_29117c30	comment	Opposites Attract Revenge: Two young men studying at the Vienna university and coming back to Višegrad for summer vacation, although fierce opponents in political debates (one is a nationalist and the other a socialist), are still best friends. Soon, their complexes and the desire to prove each other wrong turn into petty vendetta, and one of them steals the other's girl. This leads them to passionately hate each other.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Bridge on the Drina / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Abidaga, the overseer of the bridge construction, is extremely cruel and ruthless to the locals mobilized into slave labor, in order for the construction schedule to be fulfilled. The icing on the cake is that he embezzles the money Mehmed Pasha meant to be used for paying the laborers.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Bridge on the Drina / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Poor Plevljak, scared to death of Abidaga's threats of execution if he doesn't manage to catch whoever is sabotaging the construction, undergoes such a drastic Mood Whiplash after succeeding in his mission that he literally goes insane from the shock. This trope ensues.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Bridge on the Drina / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The Austrian army, while retreating from Višegrad in front of the incoming Serbian army, shells the bridge. Alihodja, after seeing the bridge, which was the central point of every townsman's life and much more than that, broken and damaged, dies of heartstroke.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Bridge on the Drina / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Fata, for being forced to marry the man she didn't want, and Fedun, after realizing his mistake.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Bridge on the Drina / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: The architect's apprentice is black. Otherwise averted, since the characters faithfully represent the region's ethnic diversity.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_7b0b0907	type	All Jews Are Cheapskates
The Bridge on the Drina / int_7b0b0907	comment	All Jews Are Cheapskates: Subverted with Lotte the hotel manager. She is really stingy and careful with the money, but it is revealed that she actually uses it to help her relatives all around Europe.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Bridge on the Drina / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Alihodja gives one to an Islamistic, would-be revolutionary. The normally quiet and reserved Nikola Glasičanin gives a long one to Janko Stikovič for his vanity and ego-centrism.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Bridge on the Drina / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Poor Lotte suffers this when her hotel is destroyed in the end of the book.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_81574019	type	Creature of Habit
The Bridge on the Drina / int_81574019	comment	Creature of Habit: The old Shemsibeg Branković has trouble adapting to the changes caused by the Austrian occupation, and ends up locking himself in his home, never leaving it again.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_aacc7ea6	type	Tyke-Bomb
The Bridge on the Drina / int_aacc7ea6	comment	Tyke-Bomb: The children collected as part of the "Tribute In Blood" are trained to become Janissaries.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_ab7b9269	type	You All Meet in an Inn
The Bridge on the Drina / int_ab7b9269	comment	You All Meet in an Inn: The kapija, the expansion in the center of the bridge, is the regular gathering place for the town population.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Bridge on the Drina / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Fata's is Pride. She is extremely beautiful and smart, which leads to men flocking around her, and she definitely knows it. This makes her much more independent and self-minded than was the norm for young Muslim girls of the time. It eventually leads to her demise, since she cannot reconcile her desire for independence with what society asks of her.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Bridge on the Drina / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The megalomaniacal Abidaga considers his exile to a backwater province in Asia Minor, after his embezzlement of the money meant for paying the bridge workers had been discovered, to be this.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Bridge on the Drina / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The closest thing the book has to a villain is Abidaga, which is there only in a few opening chapters.
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The Bridge on the Drina / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
The Bridge on the Drina / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Even though the ethnicities consisting the population of Višegrad are usually segregated and generally avoid each other, yearly floods bring them all together to cooperate. Surprisingly, they are really friendly with each other, though everything returns to the status quo once the floods are over.
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