The carpenter's pencil / Manuel Rivas ; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivas, Manuel, 1957-

Contributor:

Dunne, Jonathan, translator.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lapis do carpinteiro. English

Language:

English

Galician

Subjects (All):

History.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Fiction.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Prisoners and prisons--Fiction.

Prisoners of war.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

165 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Edition:

[Paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, NY : The Overlook Press, 2002.

Summary:

Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, this story charts the linked destinies of a doctor, his assistant and an unnamed painter who carries a carpenter's pencil.

Notes:

"First published in paperback in the United States in 2002 by The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc."--Title page verso.

"First published in Galician by Edicións Xerais de Galicia in 1998 as O lapis do carpinteiro, and by Editorial Alfaguara in a Spanish translation by Dolores Vilavedra, with the title El lápiz del carpintero, in 1998"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

1585672831

9781585672837

OCLC:

902726316