' Piranesi' is a powerfully emotive tale, with Clarke blending intrigue and impossibilities to create a truly unique literary experience that will fascinate and delight readers. It is a magnificent addition to the fantasy and magical realism genres, and will especially appeal to fans of Madeline Miller, Erin Morgenstern, Bridget Collins, and Neil Gaiman. Perhaps the person who had written this had visited my own Halls?įirst published in 2020, ' Piranesi' is Susanna Clarke’s second novel since her award-winning debut ‘ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ in 2004. The First Vestibule contains eight massive Statues of Minotaurs, each one different from the others. But the reference to 'minotaur' intrigued me. A line or two above I thought I saw the word 'slave' and a line or two below the phrase 'kill him'. After some minutes of peering at it I thought I could make out the word 'minotaur'. The writing was atrocious - like a tangle of seaweed. I could see that, even when reconstructed, the page would be difficult to decipher. It appeared to be a page torn from a notebook. Two - no, three - of the scraps fit perfectly, forming part of a small sheet of paper with one jagged side. They were crumpled and so I smoothed them out and tried putting them together. They were pieces of torn paper with writing on them. I had got halfway across the Hall when I noticed a scattering of white shapes lying on the Pavement. There are gaps in his memories and inconsistencies in his journals, hints that there may be something far more sinister at work. As Piranesi attempts to make sense of all this, he realises something even more alarming. The Other becomes agitated, warning of madness and an Enemy, a potential Sixteenth Person. Mysterious messages appear, scrawled in chalk on the pavement, on scraps of paper, or formed with rocks. Piranesi is happy, but something new has come to the House. As far as he can discover, there have existed fifteen people since the World began: Himself, thirteen Dead, and his friend, the Other a man who visits on Tuesdays and Fridays, and cannot be found on the rest of the days. Piranesi loves the beauty and immensity of the House, although it can be a little lonely sometimes. With the Sun, the Moon, and Stars, the House makes up everything there is in the World, and provides all that this man, known as Piranesi, needs to survive. Each day, in his journals, he records the wonders and happenings of the House: the unending labyrinth of Halls, the movements of the Tides that flood and fall from the Lower Staircases, the thousands of stone Statues, the Drowned Halls of fish and seaweed, the Upper Halls of obscuring clouds, even the appearance of an Albatross one day. ‘ Piranesi’ is an adult magical realism novel written by English author Susanna Clarke which tells the story of a man who lives in a curious place called the House. ***** 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being … Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL 'It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly' Guardian 'Piranesi astonished me.Target Audience: Adults (appropriate ages 15+) The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. 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. 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.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES' 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE 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 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.
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