Piranesi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635575637)

New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
World Fantasy Awards Finalist

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.

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: Susanna Clarke
ISBN-10: 163557563X
ISBN-13: 9781635575637
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
Award: Hugo Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/29/2020
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 44
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020 pg. 8
Shelf Awareness 12/01/2020
Foreword 09/02/2020