The Carpenter’s Pencil (El Lápiz Del Carpintero) Love The uses of each plant

The uses of each plant are also featured

As the scents of cooking waft through her small apartment in Beirut

plans and alliances are made and unmade as quickly as a rainstorm in the desert

It would be known all over Fez and beyond until the Sheikh (alzroi) acknowledges me and hands down his staff

and sacrifice one another

The Carpenter’s Pencil (El Lápiz Del Carpintero) Love The uses of each plantSet 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.