The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. II Godden At the age of seventeen

At the age of seventeen

at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity

Paperback: 238pp

journalists and editors—whose striving and sacrifice vanquished a deadly disease

In addition to fourteen papal encyclicals

The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. II Godden At the age of seventeenBy Jos Mara Gironella The Cypresses Believe in God is an epic novel about the anticipatory years of the Spanish Civil War. Set in the provincial capital of Gerona and spanning the years 1931 to 1936, the novel painstakingly plots the public and private elements which eventually exploded into war. At the center of the novel are Matas and Carmen Elgazu Alvear, and their three children: Csar, strange yet saintly; Pilar, charming and clever; and Ignacio,