![]() ![]() It’s a place of many halls, many rooms, many different places and levels. Our narrator is known as Piranesi – he lives in a….I don’t want to say house, it feels inaccurate, even though it’s the term used in the book. ![]() This is under 300 but for such a slim little novel, it packs a lot into it. ![]() It’s very short, in direct contrast to Susanna Clarke’s other novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which is close to 1000 pages. It’s definitely one of the more unusual books I’ve read….but I liked it. 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. But Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. ![]() Blurb : 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. ![]()
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