by José María Gironella · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401410031
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«En Asia se muere bajo las estrellas» is the travelogue by José María Gironella, published by Plaza Janés in paperback (633 pages, in Spanish).
Gironella travels through eight Asian countries and describes his experiences along the way, focusing on the diversity of landscapes, traditions and social conditions in the region, as well as the contrasts he encounters. A chronicle that invites reflection on a world both distant and close.
The work originally appeared in 1968; this 1975 edition belongs to the El Arca de Papel collection.
For readers interested in travel writing and in the culture, history and landscapes of Asia.
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.
