Name: Piranesi
Rating: 4.27027027027027 (37 reviews)
ISBN: 9781526646668

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.

Larissa Campos

This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

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.

It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies. If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?

Neha Lama Tamang

4.25/5<br />It was surely weird but in the most mesmerizing way. It truly was a strange good story.

M. Sosotris

This book floored me. Thoughtful, gorgeous, and incredibly thought-provoking. I loved the complex puzzle-box mystery and the emotional core of the story. A real work of art and of of my favourite reads of the year!

Estava sentindo falta de acabar um livro em dois dias, o dormir e acordar pensando na história—nesse caso, em outro mundo. Não sou a maior fã de fantasia, na maioria das vezes não me apetece como esse o fez, me senti dentro da história e sinto que será parte de mim para sempre. Sinto que durante esses dois dias pude viver no outro mundo, em silêncio no meio das ondas, corredores e estátuas. Gostaria de ter vivido por lá por mais tempo, a única parte que me incomoda é o quão curta foi a experiência 

Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. 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 __________________________________ 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 a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN 'Head-spinning ... Fully imagined and richly evoked' TELEGRAPH

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Aida Mateescu

I don’t like how this book makes me feel while I’m reading it, but that’s exactly why I’m drawn to it. It makes me feel as if I’m trapped inside a strange, unfamiliar realm, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what’s happening, and it drives me insane.

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

Surprisingly, this is such a fun and easy read for me and I really fancy the writing style of this book. By the set of we are reading Piranesi's notes, it really show all of him and diving into his wonder, innocence, and his peculiar story in The House, the labyrinth.

And Oh, how I just love Piranesi, him and how kindhearted and soft he is. I can't stop but smiling reading at him go.

It such a delightful read and at the same time as the story shifted and uncovered it give me such a mind-bending experience, at certain point I got so engrossed I did not know what or who to believe and feels that I too might be driven mad as well. Could say this book really did a great job in combining dazzling fantasy and mystery element in it.

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

Surprisingly, this is such a fun and easy read for me and I really fancy the writing style of this book. By the set of we are reading Piranesi's notes, it really show all of him and diving into his wonder, innocence, and his peculiar story in The House, the labyrinth.

And Oh, how I just love Piranesi, him and how kindhearted and soft he is. I can't stop but smiling reading at him go.

It such a delightful read and at the same time as the story shifted and uncovered it give me such a mind-bending experience, at certain point I got so engrossed I did not know what or who to believe and feels that I too might be driven mad as well. Could say this book really did a great job in combining dazzling fantasy and mystery element in it.

I think I’d rate this higher after a reread or some more time to reflect. I will say this book inspired me to create an “atmospheric nostalgia” playlist and I did thoroughly enjoy the setting but not necessarily the plot.

Jas 🐸

Intriguing! I really enjoyed this as my first book of the year. 

Rebecca Fox-Kealy

I really liked Piranesi. I loved the idea of this house and the statues. It reminded me of Plato’s story and I thought that made it really smart. Especially how the longer he stayed in the House he would lose his memory and think that that’s the world and how the statues were the image of the real things. Also I found it interesting that there was some mystery in it and it made it really intriguing and easy to read for me. I would totally recommend it, it gave me a great vibe💜

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i will never stop thinking about this. this might be THE book of the year for me. 

marie

Beautifully written. And the story spectacularly holds up, through surprises and all - brilliant, original and entrancing.

Beatrix

Beautifully written. And the story spectacularly holds up, through surprises and all - brilliant, original and entrancing.

- mum’s comments: It is so generous - no vengeance, spite, despair - despite it all, he has such a kind disposition, such space and capacity for reflection, gifting the benefit of the doubt, and his own very methodological processing.

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