by José María Gironella · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408068594
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Booket in paperback (912 pages, in Spanish).
Set during the Second Republic, the story follows the middle-class Alvear family and, through them, traverses different social strata of Spain at the time. The narrative shows the progressive clash between two irreconcilable positions until the outbreak of the Civil War.
First installment of the novelistic saga about the Spanish Civil War, followed by Un millón de muertos and Ha estallado la paz. It won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
Reading for those seeking a novelized chronicle of Spain before the Civil War from the perspective of a middle-class family.
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.
