The 'House' - its upper rooms lost in clouds, its lower chambers drowned by the sea - will haunt my dreams.' - Daily Mail 'A gently comic, thoroughly beguiling read. It burrows into the subconscious, throwing out puzzles long after the final page. A fever dream - disorientating, engrossing, persistently strange. A remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention.' - The Guardian Piranesi is a tenebrous study in solitude. 'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint. Clarke affirmed herself as one of Britain's most singular novelists.' - Daily Telegraph, Best Novels of 2020 'A startling novel of austere magical realism. 'Clarke's fantastical parable of solitude, imagination, ambition and contentment is a spectacular piece of fiction, and the perfect reading accompaniment to a year like no other.' - The Guardian, Best Fiction of 2020 'Reminds us of fiction's power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one.' - The Guardian, Autumn highlights Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781526622433 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 190 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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 and waterlilies 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 which thunder up staircases, the clouds which move in slow procession through the upper halls. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2020 Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
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