Author: Manuel Rivas
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788490628843
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Lluís Agustí

Among authors writing in Galician, Manuel Rivas is one of the most well-known outside his native Galicia. The Carpenter’s Pencil recounts the relationship between a prison guard, Herbal, and a physician, Daniel Da Barca, during the Civil War in Galicia. Dr. Da Barca is imprisoned because of his ideas and has fallen in love with Marisa Mallo, a daughter of the regime. Herbal is jealous of the doctor and avails himself of the pencil of a carpenter who had been shot in the temple. A magnificent literary work with an element of the magical.