![]() ![]() In the novel, Brother Juniper spends years compiling data about each victim in order to draw his conclusions. ![]() ![]() The priest becomes determined to develop a scientific method for calculating what personality characteristics the five might have shared that would make God ready to call them to him. Wilder sets the action in Lima, Peru, in 1714, where a Franciscan monk witnesses the collapse of a bridge that has stood for over a century, killing the five people on it. It tells the story of a religious man's spiritual quest to determine why God allows disasters to occur. The Bridge of San Luis Rey was Thornton Wilder's second novel, published when he was just thirty, and it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. ![]()
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