![]() ![]() It sounds melodramatic, but for me it was striking. When we emerged it was into a world that was different to what we remembered, and there seems to be no way back to 2019. It became quite normal for governments to demand we stayed locked in our houses, to cancel public events, and to choose who was essential and who was not. And over time, our memory of what we had and what we had lost started to fade. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands. We were all trapped for a long time in our houses, in some cases just a couple of rooms. From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. ![]() It was an easy read and I finished it within just over a day. It is clearly written in the magic realism vein of Borges and Gaiman, who the author acknowledges as inspirations. Piranesi himself is a wonderfully honest character, Very forthright and noble. The aesthetics of the House were so well crafted I swear I could smell the ocean. The book was an enjoyable reading experience. The parallels with the real world were quite amazing. The underlying theme of Piranesi is a man without a memory trapped in a labyrinthine house filled with statues, an ocean, and various forms of sea life. The beauty of the House is immeasurable its kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. Lost texts must be found, secrets must be uncovered. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. ![]() In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. The spectacular new audiobook from the best-selling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, ‘one of our greatest living authors,’ New York Magazine. Shortlisted for The Costa Novel of The Year Award.Ī Sunday Times and New York Times best seller.Ĭhosen as A Book of The Year by the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times. Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. Winner of the 2021 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year. Bloomsbury presents Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor. ![]()
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