by José María Gironella · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422611547
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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).
Set during the Second Republic, the novel follows the middle-class Alvear family and, through their daily life, portrays the country's political and social tensions. Gironella composes a chronicle in which different social strata and ways of understanding the Spain of those years intersect.
It is the first installment of José María Gironella's Tetralogy on the civil war, in the 1982 Círculo de Lectores edition.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction interested in the Second Republic and novels 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.
