Word: gironella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish revolution, which flamed around him when he was a child. At this distance, memory is small help, and the tales of heroes and sufferers take on the shadowy cast of legend. Set against the tough honesty of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, or José Maria Gironella's The Cypresses Believe in God, this novel has the air of a routine reconstruction. Yet it deserves to be read as a reminder of old passions and issues that are far from dead...