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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Where:

🇵🇪 Peru

When:

The 18th Century

Five lives bound by one fate. — The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

Released in 2004 — 120 minutes

Genres:

Romance Drama

Language:

English