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Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

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WINNER OF THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller


The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' (NEW YORK MAGAZINE)
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
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. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
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'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being … Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL
'It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly' GUARDIAN
'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER
'Brilliantly singular' SUNDAY TIMES
'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery … This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN
'Head-spinning … Fully imagined and richly evoked' TELEGRAPH
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222 printed pages
Publication year
2020
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  • Fernandoshared an impressionlast year
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable

    Te sorprende todo el tiempo. Incluso cuando parece que se vuelve explicativo, otra vez sorprende.

    NOTA: Pensar en Giovanni Battista Piranesi
    (04/10/1720 - 09/11/1778), y su obra "Prisiones"

  • Pony Neónshared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Piranesi es primoroso, maravilloso

  • Idelia Ayzyatulovashared an impression4 months ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • danielglhas quoted2 years ago
    ‘Batter-Sea is not a word,’ I said at last. ‘It has no referent. There is nothing in the World corresponding to that combination of sounds.’
  • Aida Rodriguezhas quoted9 months ago
    Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.
  • raniahas quotedlast month
    Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.

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