Piranesi

Piranesi Book Description Winner of Women's Prize for Fiction 2021: Susanna Clarke with her novel Piranesi!.. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Venice-born Italian architect and painter. He is known for his imaginary prison engravings. A House, a Labyrinth, containing endless halls, staircases and corridors illuminated by stars, whose walls are beaten by ocean waves and the waters rise and fall. This is Piranesi's World, a spooky, extraordinary World with its birds, sculptures, and tides. He shares this World with 13 dead people and his only friend, the Other, and spends his days exploring the House and its wonders. Until one day he encounters a mysterious visitor who threatens to completely destroy the only world he knows... The beauty of the house is immeasurable, Its compassion is endless. Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, suffered a long illness after her first novel. Piranesi is the second novel that Clarke wrote during this period. “A unique achievement, one that defies accepted conventions of the novel.” –Bernardine Evaristo “An elegant examination of loneliness.” –The Guardian (From the Promotional Bulletin)