"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." This immortal sentence opens The Bridge of San Luis Rey, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, was the best-selling work of fiction that year, and is still read throughout the world. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragic event. Deeply moved, he embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention, not chance, that led to the deaths of the five people crossing the bridge that day. His search leads to a timeless investigation into the nature of fate and love, and the meaning of the human condition.
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