by José María Gironella · Planeta. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432088162
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in paperback (728 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Girona during the years of the Second Republic (1931-1936) and follows the middle-class Alvear family as social tension spreads through every stratum of the city, from the upper bourgeoisie to the poor neighborhoods. The narrative shows how the country heads towards the division that will lead to the Civil War.
First part of the Tetralogy on the Spanish Civil War. Winner of the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
For readers interested in the history of Spain and in twentieth-century historical fiction.
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.
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