Drina Bridge A Novel
This is a beautifully told story of faith and loss during the 1993 Serbian-Bosnian conflict. Recovering from his lover Pimm's death, Cliff travels to Yugoslavia with Pimm's fated birth papers, hoping to uncover his past. He's led to a monastery in a Western Serbian town. Just beyond the border, in Bosnia, brutal war rages. Cliff's time in Serbia stretches into a three-year personal and spiritual journey involving an illicit love affair and a harrowing trip to Bosnia. Jim Bartley (Toronto) is the First Fiction reviewer for the GLOBE AND MAIL and a playwright. This is his debut novel.