468 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Canongate.
The gargoyle
5 stars
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After a horrific car accident which leaves him in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, the narrator of the story meets Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles who tells him they were once lovers in medieval Germany. As she tells her tales, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, to love.
Subjects
- Patients
- Reincarnation
- Traffic accident victims
- Burns and scalds
- Stone carvers
- Fiction