Carpenter's Pencil
$23.98
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2003
Summary
‘A beautiful novel, full of humanity and tenderness’ - Arturo Perez-Reverte
It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter’s pencil. But instead of reproducing the sculptured faces of the prophets and elders, he draws the faces of his fellow Republican pris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099448464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099448467 |
| Author: | Manuel Rivas, Jonathan Dunne |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
A startling novel. I have rarely read a piece of writing so poetic
A startling novel. I have rarely read a piece of writing so poetic * Daily Telegraph *
He is an important storyteller because he is sensitive and he has an incredible ear, which, in his fiction, is allied to great ingenuity – John Berger
I learnt more about the Spanish Civil War from The Carpenter’s Pencil…than from any history book I’ve read – Gunter Grass
About The Author
Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruna in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known in Spain for his journalism, as well as for his prize-winning short stories and novels, which include the internationally acclaimed The Carpenter’s Pencil and Books Burn Badly. His most recent novel, All is Silence, will be published in English in 2013. His works have been translated into twenty languages.
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