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Carpenter's Pencil - Softcover

Rivas, Manuel

 
9780099448464: Carpenter's Pencil
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ISBN 10: 0099448467 ISBN 13: 9780099448464
Verlag: Vintage, 2003

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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 prisoners.

Many years later in post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together. This poetic and moving novel conveys the horror and savagery of the tragedy that divided Spain, and the experiences of the men and women who lived through it. Yet in the process, it also relates one of the most beautiful love stories imaginable.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruña 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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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099448467
ISBN 13 
9780099448464
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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