Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Bloomsbury · Paperback · September 28, 2021

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

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Who it’s for
A spare, eerie setup with the pleasure of watching a world slowly reveal its rules.
Genres
Fantasy, Magical Realism, Visionary Fiction
Published
Bloomsbury, September 28, 2021

About this book

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues.

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Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. 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. 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. “Spellbinding, strange, and unforgettably original” (Esquire), Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty.

Strange Quiet

A spare, eerie setup with the pleasure of watching a world slowly reveal its rules.

Come here for

  • quietly strange fantasy
  • prestige-leaning atmosphere

Expect

  • surreal immersion
  • book-club friction

Where it sits

Magical Realism54%
Visionary Fiction34%
Fantasy30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Fantasy
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Literary Fiction
Authors
Susanna Clarke
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Published
September 28, 2021
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Fantasy