_‘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. 9781526622433 - Piranesi: Winner of the Womens Prize 2021 Bloomsbury Publishing by Clarke, Susanna, Used (11 results) You searched for: ISBN: 9781526622433. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. 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. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award and the Womens Prize for Fiction. But mostly, he is alone.Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. 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. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. 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. 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.
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