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Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over - he is now a monster.But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale, Scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan, Greenland, Italy and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, to love.
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The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- The Gargoyle
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Andrew Davidson
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 468
- ISBN10
- 1847673090
- ISBN13
- 9781847673091
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Fantasy, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Germany, Middle Ages, Gothic, Love Stories, Suicide, Historical Fantasy, Accident, Canadian Literature, Hospitals, Fire, Burning
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- Gargoyle
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over - he is now a monster.But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale, Scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan, Greenland, Italy and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, to love.