by José María Gironella · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432021978
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«Un millón de muertos» is the historical novel by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in 1987 in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
This novel continues the narrative cycle opened by «Los cipreses creen en Dios»: it follows the members of a family throughout the Spanish Civil War and extends the story to the whole geography of the country, with a perspective that combines the human, the social and the military between 18 July 1936 and 1 April 1939.
Second instalment of the trilogy formed by «Los cipreses creen en Dios» (1953), «Un millón de muertos» (1961) and «Ha estallado la paz» (1966). Edition from Planeta's Colección Popular.
For readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and in twentieth-century Spanish historical fiction.
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.
