by José María Gironella, Jesús Zárate · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432025365
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«Premios Planeta 1971-1972» is the compilation of the award-winning novels by José María Gironella and Jesús Zárate, published by Planeta in hardcover (864 pages).
The volume brings together two novels that won the Planeta Prize: «Condenados a vivir», the chronicle of two Barcelona families from 1939 to the late 1960s, and «La cárcel», the diary of a man imprisoned in Colombia that recounts life in prison and that of his cellmates.
The volume includes a prologue by Carlos Pujol and illustrations by Josep Serra Llimona, with a gilt top edge, and belongs to the Premios Planeta collection.
Suitable for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish fiction and in winners of the Planeta Prize.
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.
