The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Scripture and literati

and literati

Clerissac presents the spirit of St

he taught religion at a secondary school until his retirement

prayer—must be a constitutive element of society

first published in 1935

The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Scripture and literatiBy 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,