Manuel Rivas THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL First Edition Hardback Signed Located Dated

First edition first print hardback of THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL by Manuel Rivas and published by The Harvill Press in 2001. Signed to a previous owner, located and dated by Rivas on the half title page. Full numberline is 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.

The books are in near fine condition (red cloth boards with gilt lettering spine) with light general wear. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which also has light wear. Internally the pages are clean and tight with partially erased pencil writing at the top of the title page.

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 da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together. This poetic and moving novel conveys the horror and savagery of the tragedy that divided Spain, and the experiences of the men and women who lived through it. Yet in the process, it also relates one of the most beautiful love stories imaginable. 

166 pages including Author's Note and Appendices

ISBN: 1860467431

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