Book description
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.
