Clarke's style here is much tighter than in the earlier book, with not a word or phrase wasted. Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury 2020) I tend to think of every book I read as a stand-alone experience, but that's almost certainly nonsense. Piranesi has a very small cast of characters and a very narrow setting, whilst the earlier book had a huge cast, spanned most of Europe and explored numerous subplots.
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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.īut 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. It is short and pacy whilst the earlier novel was expansive and floundered. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.īut Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. The New York Times Book Review 'A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.' -The New Yorker 'Piranesi astonished me. The northern setting impresses both young and adult. rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow. Just popping in to share great news: The Iron Wolf is nominated for the Thtifantasia Award in Finland, the annual prize for best foreign fantasy book I’m touched that they say The Iron Wolf - or Rautasusi over there - is a skillfully written fantasy adventure with an unpredictable plot. 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. Piranesi flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake.
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