The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to critical acclaim. It tells the story of several interconnected people who died in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, as well as the events that led up to their being on the bridge. [A friar who 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. In 1928, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to critical acclaim. It tells the story of several interconnected people who died in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, as well as the events that led up to their being on the bridge. [A friar who 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. In 1928, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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