Book Piranesi

 Book: Piranesi

Author: Susanna Clarke

Pages: 272

This is my 83rd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues.  Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant.  But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself.  He lives to explore the house.  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 Knowlege.  But 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.

This was an interesting book.  I read Susanna's tome "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (and watched the show which helped clear some things up), so I was interested to read another one of her books. Thankfully this one was a lot shorter.  It is an interesting tale, and even with its short length, it took some concentration to follow the story to the end.  This is not a skimmable book.  The world Piranesi has built is an interesting one but also one that was hard to understand his love for at the same time.  I kind of knew where it was going after while, but it became clearer near the end.

Stars: 4