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Piranesi is a 2020 fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke, set in a parallel world of infinite halls and vestibules. The novel follows the narrator's journey of discovery and escape from a cult leader who imprisoned him in the House.
Sep 15, 2020 · Piranesi is a mysterious and intricate story of a man who explores an infinite labyrinth of statues and ocean. It is a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Fantasy and a literary fiction book by the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and its monuments, as well as his fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". He was also a classical archaeologist, architect, and designer of furniture and chimneypieces.
Sep 17, 2021 · Piranesi is a bookish and meditative novel about a man who lives in a vast House with statues and birds. The novel explores the value of reading, the beauty of the House, and the empathy of Piranesi himself.
Sep 15, 2020 · Piranesi knows nothing beyond this Borgesian labyrinth and accepts his place in it as “the Beloved Child of the House” with trusting innocence, surviving on seaweed and molluscs and communing ...
- Rebecca Abrams
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is the stuff of half-remembered dreams. It begins with a house, immense and abandoned; an infinite tangle of passageways and marble halls, swept by the tides of a captive ocean.
A plot summary of Piranesi, a novel by Susanna Clarke about a man who lives in a labyrinth called the House. He discovers he has amnesia, he is a victim of a cult, and he meets a detective who helps him escape.
