The Gargoyle

The Gargoyle

by Andrew Davidson (Author)

Synopsis

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. 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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More Information

Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 499
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd.
Published: Feb 2009

ISBN 10: 1847674305
ISBN 13: 9781847674302

Media Reviews
Extraordinary . . . The Gargoyle has a big personality . . . An exotic adventure. * * Daily Telegraph * *
Reads like a thriller * * Guardian * *
Wildly imaginative . . . Bound to be an international bestseller. * * Observer * *
Compulsively readable . . . the pages almost turn themselves. * * Metro * *
Mixing romance, classic allusion and reality, Davidson's debut is a bravura performance. * * **** Marie Claire * *
Author Bio
Andrew Davidson was born in Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 with a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. He has worked as a teacher of English in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites. 'The Gargoyle' is his first book. He lives in Manitoba, Canada.