by Manuel Rivas · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495501523
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«El lápiz del carpintero» is the historical novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (189 pages, in Spanish).
In the prison of Santiago de Compostela in 1936, a painter draws the Portico of Glory with a carpenter's pencil; the faces of the characters are those of his Republican comrades. A guard, a future executioner, watches him. The pencil is a thread of memory and a witness to the Civil War, in a story where love and art fight against despair.
Originally published in Galician as O lapis do carpinteiro, with Spanish translation by Dolores Vilavedra. The novel was recognized with the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Galega and the Premio San Clemente.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives of the Spanish Civil War with an interest in Galician literature.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
