by Thornton Wilder · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467208498
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«El puente de San Luis Rey» is the novel by Thornton Wilder published in 2005 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Set in eighteenth-century Peru, it recounts the collapse of an Inca bridge that sweeps away five people. A Franciscan friar, Fray Junípero, witnesses the catastrophe and reconstructs the victims' lives to trace a divine design in the tragedy. The novel explores love, chance, and the search for meaning in the face of death.
Originally published in 1927 as The Bridge of San Luis Rey, it received the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. This Spanish edition includes the translation by María Lejárraga de Martínez Sierra.
Aimed at readers of classics and literary fiction and at reading clubs seeking a short novel about destiny and the human condition.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
