The Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson
An
extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and
transcends the boundaries of time.
The
narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and
sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book
opens, he 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 suffers horrible burns over
much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the
damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully
planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.
A
beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the
name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they
were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured
mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who
nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and
relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy,
and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is
released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house.
But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more
powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For
another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven
sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.
Already
an international literary sensation, The Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time.
It will have you believing in the impossible.
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Totally incredible book. One of the fastest reads ever.
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