by José María Gironella · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467217834
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (873 pages, in Spanish).
«Los cipreses creen en Dios» follows the Alvear family during the Second Spanish Republic and shows how the political and social tensions of the era cut across the daily lives of different social strata. Gironella interweaves the evolution of the characters with the climate preceding the Civil War and portrays Spanish society of the time.
First installment of José María Gironella's Tetralogy on the Spanish Civil War. The novel was originally published in 1953 and won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction with an interest in the period preceding the 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.
