PIRANESI: Susanna Clarke
PIRANESI
by Susanna Clarke
2021 Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Piranesi is a truly magical book. Piranesi is a creature of The House, its caretaker. But this is no usual house: it is strange, beguiling, filled with massive vestibules and statues. It’s a house that contains massive oceans with tides that flood its carpets. It has its own eco-system of fish, birds and plants. This is where Piranesi resides, watching, measuring and recording. Clarke has written a spellbinding book. Like Piranesi, you will find it easy to get lost it this world’s many hallways and forget about the outside world.
- Reviewed by Lindsay
