by José María Gironella · PLANETA: AUTORES ESPAÑOLES E HISPANOAMERICANOS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432053771
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«Carta a mi padre muerto» is the memoir by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in hardback (237 pages, in Spanish).
This book is structured as a letter the author addresses to his deceased father. Through it, Gironella revisits his own life and that of his family, intertwined with the history of Spain: the years before the Civil War, the war itself, and the postwar period. Personal and collective memory merge in a reflection on the past.
First edition: April 1978. Planeta's Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection, in hardback with dust jacket.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and personal memoirs with a historical backdrop.
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.
