Présentation de l'éditeur
Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish writers influenced by Spanish and European traditions, as well as by the history of Spain over the past seventy years. A bestseller in Spain,
The Carpenter's Pencil has been published in nine countries.
Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War,
The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of a remarkable cast of unique characters. All are bound by the events of the Civil War-the artists and the peasants alike-and all are brought to life, in Rivas's skillful hand, with the power of the carpenter's pencil, a pencil that draws both the measured line and the artist's dazzling vision.
Translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.
Biographie de l'auteur
Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruna, Spain in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of northwest Spain and is well-known in his native country for his journalism and for teh films made of his prize-winning novles and short stories.