by Manuel Rivas · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490628843
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«El lápiz del carpintero» is the historical novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Debolsillo in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
During the summer of 1936, in the prison of Santiago de Compostela, a painter draws the Portico of Glory with a carpenter's pencil. A fascinated guard will be his future killer. The story follows that pencil, which carries memories and souls, in a tale about the Civil War and love as a refuge from despair.
El lápiz del carpintero was originally published in Galician in 1998 under the title «O lapis do carpinteiro»; this edition dates from 2015.
For readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and in the narrative of Manuel Rivas.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
