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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.
Product details
| Published | Sep 15 2020 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781635575637 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 210 x 140 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Reminds us of fiction's power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one
Guardian, Autumn highlights
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It has a daring and a grace that are quietly, transportingly spectacular. If you were looking for a book that distils the concept of wonder, this is the one: it feels like a work of pure generosity
KATHERINE RUNDELL, GUARDIAN, Best summer books
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It's always great to have some fiction to heartily recommend, and while there's been stiff competition this year, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke has won out in the end. A masterful work of weird fiction, it's a novel that grips, perplexes and moves you, usually all at once!
Observer, The Best Books of 2020
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The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that deepened our understanding, ignited our curiosity and helped us escape … For fantasy readers often eager to get lost in mystical worlds and escape the complications of real life, Piranesi's predicament deeply resonates
Time, Books of the Year
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The long-anticipated second novel from the author of 2004's best-seller Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a philosophical fantasy. Piranesi (the name is one of several allusions to the 18th century) spends his days interpreting coded messages left around a labyrinthine villa filled with seabirds and symbolic statues
Financial Times, Books of the Year
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Susanna Clarke's new novel is a beguiling study of isolation and exile ... To say more would be to ruin one of the year's more unusual reading experiences
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