Plot summary, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder in 4 Minutes - Book Review VIDEO
Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel centered on the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in 18th-century Peru that kills five people. A Franciscan friar, Brother Juniper, seeks to understand why these specific individuals died by investigating their lives in hopes of proving a divine reason. His six-year inquiry, however, fails to yield definitive answers and is ultimately deemed heretical, leading to his execution. Through richly detailed backstories and interwoven lives, Wilder explores fate, love, and the human search for meaning, making the novel a foundational work in the disaster genre.
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