Piranesi enthralled me because it brought up so many of my feelings around losing my worldview in my twenties. I’d like to take a stab at an explanation. But something special must be happening here for the reviews to be so polarized. It makes me wonder, Are we all reading the same book? No of course we aren’t. One reviewer characterizes the book as a string of random scenes. The other half think it’s boring, predictable, nonsensical. Half the audible readers think the book is genius. And the reaction to it is a fascinating social study. I completely agree with the rave reviews. The book is a wonderful mashup of Plato, CS Lewis, and Borges. The beauty of the House is immeasurable its kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. Lost texts must be found, secrets must be uncovered. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements.
At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead.
On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. The spectacular new audiobook from the best-selling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, ‘one of our greatest living authors,’ New York Magazine. Shortlisted for The Costa Novel of The Year Award.Ī Sunday Times and New York Times best seller.Ĭhosen as A Book of The Year by the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times.
Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. Winner of the 2021 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year. Bloomsbury presents Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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