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TIMESThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL
'one of our greatest living authors' New York MagazinePiranesi lives in the House. 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. On Tuesdays and
Fridays Piranesi sees his friend the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the
Dead. But mostly he is alone.Messages begin to appear scratched out in chalk on the
pavements. There is someone new in the House. 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. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and
dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. ***** '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. It is
a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER'Brilliantly singular' Sunday
Times'A gorgeous spellbinding mystery . This book is a treasure washed up upon a forgotten
shore waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN'Head-spinning . Fully imagined and richly
evoked' Telegraph
