Piranesi

Author(s): Susanna Clarke

Fiction

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. 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. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. 


Product Information

Winner Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award 2021 A Sunday Times Bestseller A New York Times Bestseller Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Fincancial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine and Times Literary Supplement

General Fields

  • : 9781526622433
  • : Bloomsbury
  • : bloomsbury
  • : 0.190055
  • : August 2021
  • : {"length"=>["7.795"], "width"=>["5.079"], "units"=>["Inches"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Susanna Clarke
  • : Paperback
  • : English