by José María Gironella · Circulo De Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422610571
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«Carta a mi padre muerto» is the novel by José María Gironella, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback, in Spanish.
In this work, José María Gironella addresses his dead father to tell him about his own past and, with it, the recent history of Spain: the pre-war era, the Civil War and the post-war era. The author reviews his relationship with his father, the distance between them and the unexpressed affection, with a melancholy and deeply personal tone.
The edition dates from 1979.
For readers of Spanish fiction with an interest in historical memory and in the experiences of 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.
