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Qalam An-najjar (O Lapis Do Carpinteiro - The Carpenter's Pencil )
Manuel Rivas
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Description for Qalam An-najjar (O Lapis Do Carpinteiro - The Carpenter's Pencil )
Paperback. A beautiful love story, full of humanity and tenderness, in the dark days of a civil war and the following dictatorship. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican who cheats death in Francos prisons, and Herbal, the illiterate Falangist, and of the unnamed painter with the carpenters pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. All are bound together by the events of the Civil War -- the artists and the peasants alike -- and all haunted by the power of the carpenters pencil.
Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican who cheats death in Francos prisons, and Herbal, the illiterate Falangist, and of the unnamed painter with the carpenters pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. All are bound together by the events of the Civil War -- the artists and the peasants alike -- and all haunted by the power of the carpenters pencil.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Qatar
Language
Arabic
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
, Qatar
ISBN
9789992194898
SKU
V9789992194898
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Ref
99-39
About Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas was born in La Coru a (Galicia), the Atlantic city, in 1957. While he was still in high-school, he started working nights, unpaid, at a newspaper. He graduated in Media Studies at the University of Complutense in Madrid and then has worked as a professional journalist in different areas of the press, radio and television. Rivas is one ... Read more
Reviews for Qalam An-najjar (O Lapis Do Carpinteiro - The Carpenter's Pencil )
I have learned more about the Spanish Civil War by reading The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas than through all the history books.
Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize of Literature 1999 A strange and haunting novel... a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history. The Guardian El l piz del carpintero brings together the taste ... Read more
Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize of Literature 1999 A strange and haunting novel... a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history. The Guardian El l piz del carpintero brings together the taste ... Read more