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Story: 5/6 I can reveal no more about the story than I have without spoiling the experience of the novel.Ĭharacterization: 5/6 The main character feels completely believable, despite his highly unusual physical and psychological circumstances. I squeezed Myself into the Woman’s Niche and waited until I heard the Tides roaring in the Lower Halls and felt the Walls vibrating with the force of what was about to happen (3)

One Bee– this always gives me a slight sensation of queasiness– crawls over he left Eye. The Woman is two or three times my own height and the Beehive is covered with marvel Bees the size of my thumb. I climb up the Western Wall until I reached the Statue of a Woman carrying a Beehive, fifteen metres above the Pavement. It Walls are lined with marble Statues, hundreds upon hundreds of them, Tier upon Tier, rising into the distant heights. The Ninth Vestibule is remarkable for the three great Staircases it contains. This is something that happens only once every eight years. When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the Tides. Originality: 5/6 The visual style of the house draw from the illustrations of the enigmatic Giovanni Battista Piranesi, but Piranesi delivers an original story. I enjoyed the opening, but I know a number of readers will find it slow and very strange, for some to the point of alienation. Its fantasy, while it invites metaphoric interpretation, has been rooted in a worthwhile premise, if one not easy for the contemporary mind to embrace. I applaud the very fact that a book this bizarre and enigmatic not only works so well but actually has a solution that makes sense in context.

The arrival of others causes the mystery of Piranesi’s life to unravel. The house, clearly inspired by the illustrations of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, is so vast that the attic level supports weather systems and the lower levels contain oceans and tides. Premise:Ī man with some serious memory lapses explores the statue-filled labyrinth/house in which he lives, occasionally interacting with (initially) one other person who regularly turns up.

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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.In 2020, award-winning author Susanna Clarke published this slender but monumental novel about a man living in a vast labyrinth filled with many statues and a few dead bodies, and pervaded with mystery.Īvailable from Amazon, Amazon.ca, and as a kindle. 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. From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.

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