by José María Gironella · Biblioteca El Mundo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481303483
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«Los cipreses creen en Dios. Volumen II» is the novel by José María Gironella, published by Biblioteca El Mundo in paperback with 542 pages in Spanish.
Second instalment of this ensemble novel set in Gerona between 1931 and 1936, in the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War. Through the Alvear family and their son Ignacio, Gironella portrays daily life in a provincial city and the political, religious and social tensions that lead to the conflict.
Published in 2001, it is the second part of Los cipreses creen en Dios, with a prologue by Martín Casariego; number 81 in the collection Las mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Spanish Civil War and twentieth-century Spanish narrative.
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.
