by José María Gironella · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422600992
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (780 pages, in Spanish).
During the Spanish Second Republic, the novel follows the Alvears, a middle-class family, and through their daily life and the different social strata portrays the political, religious and human tensions of the Spain of that era.
First instalment of the Tetralogy on the Spanish Civil War. The Círculo de Lectores edition was published in 1973; the work was originally published in 1953.
For readers of Spanish historical fiction, with a special interest in the Civil War and twentieth-century classics of peninsular literature.
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.
