Summary
Written in the form of an unfinished e-mail that the cynical narrator, a foreigner, sends to her lover, this Gothic novel takes us to contemporary Višegrad. Clearly, both in the title and in the text, building an ironic counterpoint to Andrić, Nikolaidis does not offer us the heroic past, but the criminal present of the famous bridge. On it and around it walk rapists, murderers, incinerators of living people, whose bloody legacy cannot be covered by the colorful facade of Andrićgrad. Evil in this novel, as in the past of this destroyed town on the Drina, simply wins. The heroine will not escape the fate of the Bosnian women and men of Visegrad. Moreover, he will learn everything about the past through his skin and his body.
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