by José María Gironella · Planeta - Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432082306
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios II» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in paperback (768 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place in Spain in the 1930s, starting in 1931, and describes the growing political and social tension. Different characters embody the ideological currents of the time —anarchism, communism, Catholicism, monarchism and existentialism— and show the human conflict that leads to the Civil War.
The original work was published in 1953 and received the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. This edition is from 1984, in Spanish, with 768 pages, and is part of Gironella's tetralogy about the Spanish Civil War.
For readers of historical fiction and 20th-century Spanish narrative.
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.
