by José María Gironella · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408042082
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«El apocalipsis» is the novel by José María Gironella, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (562 pages, in Spanish).
Isaac, son of a bookseller in Gerona, believes he is a descendant of the Sephardic Jews expelled in 1492. At university he befriends the Muslim Mahmud Garib and the Catholic Álvaro Rocamora, and together they explore a tolerant faith in the face of violence and racism. After experiencing love in Paris, he returns to Gerona, caught in the world's destructive spiral.
First edition published on October 31, 2001; it belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection of Editorial Planeta.
For readers of contemporary fiction with an interest in Sephardic identity, intercultural dialogue and the tension between faith and violence.
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.
