by Manuel Rivas · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429878
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«El lápiz del carpintero» is the historical novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Alfaguara in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
In the prison of Santiago de Compostela, in the summer of 1936, a Republican painter draws the Portico of Glory with a carpenter's pencil and lends the prophets the faces of his companions. A guard watches him, fascinated. That story of the pencil, a conductor of memories, continues to this day as a tale of love and resistance.
Work originally published in Galician as «O lapis do carpinteiro», with translation into Spanish by Dolores Vilavedra. Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Galega (1998) and Premio San Clemente (1999).
A work for readers of historical and contemporary fiction interested in the Spanish Civil War and Galician narrative.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
