The Gargoyle

· Canongate Books
4.9
34 reviews
Ebook
512
Pages

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
34 reviews
David Bilson
January 28, 2015
Don't read this book if your looking for something warm and fluffy! This book takes you down many dark but wonderful alleys. The book is fundamentally a mixture of love stories through time and place, reincarnation the ability of the human spirit to survive devastatingly loss of self, yet still be capable of loving and being loved and so much more. Each person who reads this will take from it what they will. I told you it's complicated, read it yourself this book does not disappoint. Please please please tell me the author will continue writing fiction!! In case you haven't already guessed I LOVE this book.
5 people found this review helpful
A Google user
July 30, 2012
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson is without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever had the fortune to read. In fact it’s so good that the paperback version t literally fell apart as I was reading it. As if self destructing so no one else could cast their eyes upon its magnificence. The tale of this book is not just one, but many. A series of stories stretching back through time and space, yet all starting with one man and his horrible car accident. It is clever, brilliantly written and a great read.
Maegan Reed
October 14, 2014
I stayed up all night until I had finished this book. It is extremely addictive, descriptive, and has complex, unique characters. The language is sophisticated and the historical referencing is thorough. I loved this book!
3 people found this review helpful

About the author

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.

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