by Andrew Davidson · Edições ASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789892301747
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«A Gárgula» is the fantasy and historical novel by Andrew Davidson, published by Edições ASA in paperback (480 pages, in Portuguese).
After an accident that disfigures him, a man meets Marianne Engel in the hospital, a sculptor of gargoyles who claims they were lovers in 14th-century Germany. She tells stories of immortal love in Japan, Iceland, Italy and England. A novel reminiscent of Scheherazade and the liberating power of suffering.
Original title: The Gargoyle (2008). Portuguese translation by Elsa T. S. Vieira. Winner of the Sunburst Award 2009; nominated for the LovelyBooks Leserpreis 2009.
For readers of fantasy, romance and historical fiction, with a gothic tone and a framed narrative structure.
Andrew Davidson is a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in Pinawa, Manitoba, he graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia in 1991, and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada. He has so far published just one novel, The Gargoyle, a psychological thriller about love, religion, mental illness and medieval history, for which he received an unprecedented advance of $1.25 million.
