The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Scripture he taught religion at a

he taught religion at a secondary school until his retirement

Their warm friendship seems destined for but a brief duration

first published in 1935

prayer—must be a constitutive element of society

ISBN: 978-1950970421

The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Scripture he taught religion at aBy 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,