On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges
into a ravine. The driver survives the
crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a
sculptress of grotesques, enters his life.
She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a
mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives
together, the man’s disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer
be dismissed.
4/5 stars (really liked it)
The beginning of this book is not for the weak of
stomach. It starts out right away with
the narrator having a horrible car accident that burns him severely. Then goes on to the hospital and his
recovery, which involves so many things on his skin that are described in
detail. He doesn’t meet Marianne for a
while into the book and when she is introduced her characters fascinated
me. She told many stories about how
they met in Medieval Germany and even has stories of people she knew a long
time ago. All of the stories that are
very interesting. You see the narrator
turn into a whole new person, not just physically but mentally. He was such a selfish, cocky person before
his accident. I even loved the dog in
this story, Bougatsa and the role he plays in all of this. I think the most interesting thing of all is
that I got done reading this book and then realized that we never found out the
narrators name.
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