The Carpenter's Pencil - Couverture souple

Rivas, Manuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860469299 ISBN 13 : 9781860469299

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 2001

Synopsis

A timeless love story that grew out of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico de 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. Years later in post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruna in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He has published three novels and three collections of stories. The Carpenter's Pencil won him the coveted Spanish Critics' Prize and is being made into a film. Three of the stories in his collection *Que me queres, amor? have been made into the acclaimed film "Butterfly's Tongue".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860469299
• ISBN 13: 9781860469299
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible