![]() ![]() Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor, and her handmaiden Pepita. ![]() By studying the lives of the five victims, Brother Juniper can show how God's will works on earth, or so he believes. Brother Juniper, who has long wondered about fate and the nature of God's will, seeks to study the lives of the five people who fell from the bridge that day. The bridge collapse is witnessed by Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was in Peru trying to convert the natives to Christianity. The story starts with the collapse of the eponymous bridge, a rope bridge on the road between Lima and Cuzco. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novella by Thornton Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." ![]()
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