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In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plunging five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy and embarks on a spiritual quest to reconcile free will versus
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a pun
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on fate, love, and the hidden patterns of human connection. First published in 1927, The Bridge of San Luis Rey begins with a catastrophe: the collapse of a bridge in eighteenth-century Peru, killing