Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
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Pub Date Sep 15 2020 | Archive Date Sep 30 2020
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while 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.
“Spellbinding, strange, and unforgettably original” (Esquire), Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty.
Advance Praise
“An exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.” —David Mitchell
"Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost, and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls!" —Madeline Miller
“This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered.” —Erin Morgenstern
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781635575637 |
| PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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