![]() #Piranesi clarke fullFor 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. 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. 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. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can. The House is the world on which Clarke exerts her formidable world-building skills. Piranesi is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. But Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. Piranesi doesn’t know about the Renaissance engraver, famous for his drawings of fanciful prisons, but we might. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. ![]() 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. Piranesi warned Ketterley of the flood and knew exactly what to do in this event Piranesi survived because he knew the House best. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf. ![]() Rebecca Abrams’ novel ‘Touching Distance’ is published by Picador. The key to understanding the scene lies in not just who won but also how. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99, 272 pages. New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Though unarmed, the emerging victor is Piranesi while Ketterley dies of drowning. ![]()
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