Cover image for Piranesi
Title:
Piranesi
Author:
Clarke, Susanna author
ISBN:
9781526622426

9781526622433
Additional ISBN:
9781526622426 9781526622433
Award(s):
Costa Book Awards - Novel : Shortlist, 2020

Womens Prize for Fiction : Winner, 2021

Hugo Awards Best Novel : Shortlist, 2021

Nebula Awards Best Novel : Shortlist, 2021
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Physical Description:
245 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Abstract:
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 and waterlilies 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.