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The Carpenter's Pencil

Paperback • 2003 • English

The Carpenter's Pencil

By Manuel Rivas

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780099448464

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Carpenter's Pencil

Format

Paperback

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