The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Sheen Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was a

Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was a Norwegian novelist and essayist and a con­vert to the Catholic faith

like her written works

John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University champions a “discipline of mind” that enables its possessor to distinguish essence from accident

Learned yet unpretentious

provides an incisive analysis of the relationship between the existence of God and the science of metaphysics according to the sapiential teaching of St

The Cypresses Believe in God, Vol. I Sheen Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was 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,