The Stone Door
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After the enthusiastic reception accorded The Hearing Trumpet("This is the best book I've ever read." - Los Angeles Free Times), Leonora Carrington has now released for publication an even more intense tale of fantasy and love. Written at the end of World War II and only now published in its original English edition, The Stone Dooris an inspired, phantasmagoric journey into a wildly surreal world.
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The novel is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a Chinese puzzle, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Cabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Boles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond...
As impossible to describe as it is to put down, The Stone Doorestablishes once and for all that the author has no peer in the realms of fantasy or black humor.
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