Piranesi Spiral-Bound | 2021-09-28

Susanna Clarke

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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. Read more
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
Item Weight: 0.62 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches
"[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake . . . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow." --The New York Times Book Review
"A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine." --The New Yorker
"Unforgettable--surely one of the most original works of fiction this season. It drops you into a mind-bending fantasy world . . . It's a hypnotic tale that you can devour in a day (and probably will; it's that hard to put down)." --AARP.org
"A high-quality page turner." --The Wall Street Journal

Susanna Clarke is the author of the The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and the New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She lives in England.