Piranesi: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

Piranesi is a novel by Susanna Clarke that was awarded the Women's Prize 2021 and the Kitschies 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and the New York Times Bestseller. The book follows Piranesi, a character who lives in a mysterious house and documents its wonders in his notebooks. When messages begin to appear, scratching out in chalk on the pavements, Piranesi sets out to uncover the secrets of the house and the identity of the new arrival. The novel is praised for its stunning imagery, intricate plot, and memorable characters.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 272 pages
\n Publication date: 15 September 2020
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Winner of the Women's Prize 2021
Winner of the Kitschies 2021
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award
Sunday Times
Bestseller
New York Times
Bestseller
Chosen 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

The Spectacular New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
One of our greatest living authors
New York Magazine

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.

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 .

\n Weight: 448g\n
Dimension: 162 x 223 x 30 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526622426\n \n