by José María Gironella · Editorial Planeta, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432028014
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (768 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Alvears, a middle-class family in Girona, and reconstructs Spanish society during the Second Republic (1931-1936). Through characters from the upper bourgeoisie and the working classes, it portrays the tensions that would end up dividing the country into two irreconcilable camps on the eve of the civil war.
First installment of the Tetralogy on the Spanish Civil War. Originally published in 1953.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Second Republic and the background to the Spanish Civil War.
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.
