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Piranesi / Susanna Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020Description: 245 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635575637
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: PiranesiDDC classification:
  • 823/.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6103.L375 P57 2020
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Comment by Jennifer McLarty

02/09/2021

So, I found it better if you go into this book without knowing anything about it. I will thus avoid a plot synopsis. What, then, to say? The prose is exquisite - those familiar with Susanna Clarke's one other book, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell will be aware of her command of description and beauty. The story of Piranesi (which bares no resemblance to JSaMN) is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma and the joy is the slow unravelling of it. There are elements of fantasy, of folk horror, the surreal... I am not sure I have read anything quite like it. It is thoughtful. It is striking. It is odd. I am completely and utterly delighted by this slim little book.

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