
Piranesi
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
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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 Realism | 54% |
|---|---|
| Visionary Fiction | 34% |
| Fantasy | 30% |
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