Reminds us of fiction’s power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one * Guardian, Autumn highlights * I could have lived in the first hundred pages of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke forever. Fully imagined and richly evoked' Telegraph This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being. 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.
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 novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' New York Magazine Piranesi lives in the House. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES RED TENTACLE AWARD
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