The gargoyle
By: Andrew Davidson
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781847671684; 9781847673091
Subjects: Patients; Reincarnation; Traffic accident victims; Burns and scalds; Stone carvers; Fiction
Description: 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.