The Goat Bridge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472115112)

American photographer Stephen Brings has fled a troubled relationship in Chicago and the painful memory of a kidnapped and still-missing son, only to stumble into the Balkans at the outbreak of the civil wars.

As he drifts through the countryside, Stephen struggles to resolve the trauma and sorrow of losing his son, and soon the landscape begins to mirror his own inner battles. After a return trip to America fails to heal the rift between himself and the mother of his child, Stephen returns to Sarajevo, where he begins a project to document images of the Bosnian people--not war images, but personal portraits of an embattled nation. There he finds himself falling in love with a German journalist, who helps to heal his ailing body and to overcome his tragic loss.

The Goat Bridge is an unforgettable tale of memory and oblivion, a probing story of loss and redemption, of letting go and holding on, and of the universal human search for meaning. In the end, it is also a love story about finding the wisdom and courage to surrender to one's own and another's heart.

Author: T. M. McNally
ISBN-10: 0472115111
ISBN-13: 9780472115112
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2005
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.42w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2005 pg. 45
Booklist 08/01/2005 pg. 1994
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2006 pg. 10
Multicultural Review 05/01/2006 pg. 60