Carpenter's Pencil

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It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain & 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 P-rtico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. But instead of reproducing the sculptured faces of the prophets & 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, & the threads of past memories begin to be woven together. This poetic & moving novel conveys the horror & savagery of the tragedy that divided Spain, & the experiences of the men & women who lived through ti. Yet in the process, it also relates one of the most beautiful love stories imaginable.