by Manuel Rivas · Santillana Educación, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420468631
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«El lápiz del carpintero» is the novel by Manuel Rivas published by Santillana Educación, S.L. in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Set during the Spanish Civil War, the novel interweaves the destinies of artists and peasants united by the conflict and by the image of a carpenter's pencil, which combines the precision of the line and the artist's vision. Rivas thus explores love, art, politics, and the aftermath of cruelty and tenderness in the human soul.
The work was originally published in Galician as «O lapis do carpinteiro» in 1998 and was awarded the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Galega and the Premio San Clemente; this edition includes a prologue by J. M. Caballero Bonald.
For readers of historical and contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the Civil War and in a poetic prose style.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
