Piranesi

Piranesi

Published:
2020-09-15
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ISBN:
9781635575644
Meeting:
2021-01-04 (meeting #48)
Chosen by:
Tom
Pages:
226
File size (e-book):
532 KB
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Description:

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others.  Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.  But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge.  But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Author Details:

Susanna Mary Clarke is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history that became a best-seller. In 2006, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories. Clarke's second novel, Piranesi, was published in September 2020, winning the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. In January 2024, she stated that she was currently working on a novel set in Bradford, England.