The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder

Category: Bestsellers, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 18th Century Peru Pulitzer Prize

Written by Thornton Wilder
Read by Timothy Andrés Pabon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 27-06-2023
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

A spare and haunting novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and has informed how literature addressed tragedy ever since its initial publication in 1927

In eighteenth-century Peru, a rope bridge collapses, dropping five people to tragic deaths in the gorge below. In the aftermath, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar and a witness to the disaster, strives to comprehend why these five people were fated to die in this way. Was it, he wonders, some form of divine Providence, or was it arbitrary and unrelated to the manner in which these people had led their lives?

In its exploration of love and loss, cosmic justice and injustice, and fate versus chance, The Bridge of San Luis Rey probes at questions that remain—that will always remain—fundamental to human existence.

Public Domain (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing