by José María Gironella · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432070167
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«A la sombra de Chopin» is the novel by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in 1990 in paperback (437 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a musician in his efforts to train and in the complicated process of reconciling his vocation with personal maturity. Through his relationship with beauty and artistic sensitivity, the protagonist gradually discovers what music demands and what life puts in his path.
The first edition (May 1990) belongs to the Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and stories of artistic vocation and personal growth.
José María Gironella Pous, known in Catalan as Josep Maria Gironella i Pous was a Catalonian Spanish author best known for his fictional work The Cypresses Believe in God, which was published in Spain in 1953 and translated into English in 1955 by Harriet de Onís (1899-1969), a translator who usually specialized in Latin-American fiction.
