Carpenter's pencil

Section: Translated novels

Number of pages: 190 pages

Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

"The Carpenter's Pen is set in the darkest days of the Spanish Civil War, depicting the intertwined destinies of Dr. Daniel da Barca, a loyalist of the Republic who survives death in General Franco's prisons; the illiterate prison guard Herbal, a member of the Falange, and the nameless painter who wields the carpenter's pen, uniting them in life and death. The Civil War puts everyone in the same furnace, whether they are artists or peasants, and they all become prisoners of the power of the carpenter's pen."