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100 1 _aTraven, B.,
_d1882-1969
245 1 4 _aDie Brücke im Dschungel
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-06
508 _aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aDie Brücke im Dschungel by B. Traven is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the Mexican jungle around a precarious bridge and a pump station, it follows an itinerant narrator and his acquaintance Sleigh among Indigenous villagers as a festive night turns grave when a small boy disappears by the river. The story foregrounds parental love, communal bonds, and the ever-present danger of the wilderness while tracing the uneasy ties between outsiders and locals. The opening of the novel introduces the narrator’s chance meetings with Sleigh, an American who lives among Indigenous people, then shifts to a riverside settlement preparing for a dance. Music fails to arrive, but the village gathers: Garza fiddles, his wife Carmelita tends the family, and their exuberant son Carlos dotes on his older half-brother Manuel, home from Texas. In the thick, moonless night a single splash goes largely unnoticed; when Carlos vanishes, rumors swirl that he rode off, while Carmelita becomes convinced he fell from the unrailed bridge—his new boots betraying him. The community sparks fires along the banks, dives in the murky water, and sweeps the shore with torches in a solemn, collective search, as the scene closes on Manuel heading into the dark. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBerlin: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1929
653 _aVillages -- Fiction
653 _aMexico -- Fiction
653 _aMissing children -- Fiction
653 _aIndians of North America -- Mexico -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77625
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