by José María Gironella · PLANETA: DOCUMENTO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408000815
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«Carta a mi madre muerta» is the autobiographical account by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in paperback (255 pages, in Spanish).
In an intimate letter to his deceased mother, Gironella reviews the milestones of his life: childhood in Gerona, early jobs, his spiritual concerns, the Civil War and literary success after winning the Premio Nadal in 1947. A personal testimony on memory and the passage of time.
The book, published in 1992, is part of Planeta's Documento collection (no. 316). The letter is addressed to Rosa Pous Gironella, the author's mother.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and autobiographical accounts by writers.
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.
