Piranesi Susanna Clarke by Susanna Clarke 9781635576757, 163557675X instant download after payment.

"Austere and classical, it has no fairies but plenty of magic... [a] dazzling fable about loneliness, imagination and memory."  -  Suzy Feay, The Spectator (UK)

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. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, 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.

"Clarke’s new novel is called Piranesi, and it is haunting. It establishes Clarke not just as one of the great fantasy novelists of her generation, but as one of the greatest novelists of any genre currently writing in English... so haunting, so exquisite... Piranesi did what all truly great novels do, which is to take me out of myself and then return me back as someone new and changed... Piranesi is a book bigger than its mysteries and bigger than its slim page length. You will want to let it swallow you whole."  -  Constance Grady, Vox

Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean At The End Of The Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.