#PIRANESI CLARKE FULL#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.īut 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.įor 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. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.īut Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. By Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury: 272 pages, 27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. For those of us who had been eagerly awaiting a new Susanna Clarke after 2004’s. 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. 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. Piranesi is a book of imagined worlds and unpredictable capitalisations, of mystery and murder and university life. 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. From the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi is the main character of the story who lives a life in a watery, murky labyrinth without questioning his own past or present, choosing the ignorance as.
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