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Piranesi Piranesi
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8x12.9 cm
ISBN13
9781526622433
Edition No.
1

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke (Author) · Bloomsbury Publishing · Paperback

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

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Synopsis "Piranesi "

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2020

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 which thunder up staircases, the clouds which 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 and waterlilies 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. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

MEDIA REVIEWS
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. It’s a dream of a novel - Anthony Doerr, Observer, Books of the Year

Clarke’s fantastical parable of solitude, imagination, ambition and contentment is a spectacular piece of fiction, and the perfect reading accompaniment to a year like no other - Guardian, Best Fiction of 2020

A startling novel of austere magical realism … Clarke affirmed herself as one of Britain’s most singular novelists - Daily Telegraph, Best Novels of 2020

Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint ... Piranesi is a tenebrous study in solitude … A remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention - Guardian

Like a thriller … Compelling … A fever dream - disorientating, engrossing, persistently strange … It burrows into the subconscious, throwing out puzzles long after the final page … Brilliantly singular - Sunday Times

Brilliantly peculiar … It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly - Guardian

A gently comic, thoroughly beguiling read … The ‘House’ - its upper rooms lost in clouds, its lower chambers drowned by the sea - will haunt my dreams - Daily Mail

The most curious confection … Blending elements of mythology and fantasy, with nods along the way to CS Lewis and Tolkien … Genuinely moving climax that throws open the doors of the halls in more ways than one - i paper

Her prowess as a stylist is undiminished … Piranesi’s naively observant voice also nods to the narrators of those Enlightenment parables of flawed Reason lost amid marvels and monsters – think Defoe’s Crusoe, Swift’s Gulliver, Voltaire’s Candide - The Arts Desk

Close to perfect ... Full of wonders and an infectious ecstasy ... Clarke has the same skill Flann O’Brien poured into The Third Policeman for making insane worlds feel as solid as our own - Sunday Times
Susanna Clarke
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Susanna Clarke (Nottingham, 1959) is a British writer known for her distinctive approach to historical fantasy. Her literary debut, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), blends magic and realism in an alternative 19th century England. The novel was an international success, selling over four million copies and earning awards such as the Hugo and the World Fantasy Award. In 2006, she published The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of stories set in the same magical universe.

After a period of inactivity due to chronic fatigue syndrome, Clarke returned in 2020 with Piranesi, a novel that explores solitude and identity in a labyrinthine world. The work was critically acclaimed and won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021. Clarke continues to be an influential figure in contemporary fantasy literature, noted for her evocative style and her ability to merge the magical with the historical.
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Carol H Friday, August 30, 2024
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En verdad es una edición de bolsillo, llego con una punta un tanto doblada pero todo bien. La historia nada que decir muuuyy buena

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 Anonymous User Monday, July 13, 2026
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Muy buena historia y vino sin arruga alguna. 10/10 al servicio

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