by José María Gironella · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408047285
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the novel by José María Gironella published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (810 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Alvear family, middle class, during the years of the Second Republic. The experiences of the Alvears allow Gironella to show the daily life of the city and the variety of social classes, from domestic life to the political and cultural atmosphere of the time.
The novel was originally published in 1953 and is part of Gironella's novelistic series that continued with Un millón de muertos and Ha estallado la paz.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Spanish society and politics during the Second Republic.
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.
