![]() Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children.īut every City also has a dark side. Jan and I had lived in New York City, and the book brought back fond memories.Įvery great city has a soul. It is a story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. Jemisin is my first science fiction and urban fantasy novel in quite some time. Thank you for supporting Sharing Jan’s Love blog. When you buy a book or product using a link on this page, I receive a commission. 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.įor readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds. 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. ![]() 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. The Goodreads summary provides an overview of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. ![]() I highly recommend this book as it is one of my best this year. ![]() Piranesi is a page-turner, but that does not fully describe the beauty of the world that Susanna Clarke created. In addition, a labyrinth is one of the options we have discussed for the next phase of the work in Hanson Park. Is it any surprise that I would pick this book as my thirtieth of the year? As a widow, I journal and journey in a life I did not expect to live, and I still believe I will find meaning and purpose. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves.Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is about a man known as Piranesi who lives in a big house and explores the labyrinth of rooms and hopes of understanding the meaning. ‘Piranesi is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. ISBN 9781526622433 Purchase this product now and earn 57 Points! This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered’ ERIN M Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside” DAVID MITCHELL. “What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty. An instant classic that has been hailed as one of the finest works of fiction of the twenty-first century.įifteen years later, it is finally time to enter the House and meet Piranesi… The long-awaited return from the author of the multi-million copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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