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Piranesi by susanna clarke4/10/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. 23.49 from Amazon 24.84 from Bookshop What Piranesi doesn’t like is the Other’s insistence that the House is an object of study. The novel is set in a parallel universe made up of an infinite number of halls and vestibules, which triggers a gradual. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), published sixteen years earlier. But Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. Piranesi is a fantasy novel by English author Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Piranesi, a new novel from Susanna Clarke, the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Piranesi: ‘Spectacular’ The Times: WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE 2021 (High/Low) Hardcover 15 September 2020 by Susanna Clarke (Author) 21,665 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 308.00 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 1,335.21 10 New from 1,335.21 Paperback 459. 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. ![]() New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. ![]()
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