by José María Gironella · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432052521
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«Condenados a vivir» is the novel by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is a chronicle of the Catalan bourgeoisie between 1939 and 1970: its characters live through those decades while the author reflects on the human condition, survival and the search for meaning in a time of uncertainty and suffering.
According to the cover, it won the Planeta Prize 1971 and reached the 24th edition, with 221,000 copies sold.
Work for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and fiction with a historical background.
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.
