by José María Gironella · Bibliotex, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303490
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella published by Bibliotex in hardcover, in Spanish.
Set in Gerona between 1931 and 1936, the novel follows the Alvear family and reconstructs the daily life of the city during the Second Republic. Through characters such as Ignacio, Pilar and César, Gironella portrays the ideological, social and religious tensions running through Spain that ultimately led to the civil war.
The work belongs to Gironella's tetralogy on the Spanish Civil War. This edition brings together volumes I and II, with a prologue by Martín Casariego.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the years leading up 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.
