Piranesi

BOOK SUMMARY

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Susanna Clarke is the author of 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.

PRAISE

"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

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback 272 pages
Fiction
Dimensions: 8.2 in (H) | 5.4 in (W) | 0.8 in (T)