Reminds us of fiction's power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one, Guardian, Autumn highlights

Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint ... Piranesi is a tenebrous study in solitude . A remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention, Guardian

Like a thriller . Compelling . A fever dream - disorientating, engrossing, persistently strange . It burrows into the subconscious, throwing out puzzles long after the final page . Brilliantly singular

, Sunday Times

Brilliantly peculiar . It subverts expectations throughout . Utterly otherworldly

, Guardian

A gently comic, thoroughly beguiling read . The 'House' - its upper rooms lost in clouds, its lower chambers drowned by the sea - will haunt my dreams, Daily Mail

The most curious confection . Blending elements of mythology and fantasy, with nods along the way to CS Lewis and Tolkien . Genuinely moving climax that throws open the doors of the halls in more ways than one, i paper

Her prowess as a stylist is undiminished . Piranesi's naively observant voice also nods to the narrators of those Enlightenment parables of flawed Reason lost amid marvels and monsters - think Defoe's Crusoe, Swift's Gulliver, Voltaire's Candide, The Arts Desk

Close to perfect ... Full of wonders and an infectious ecstasy ... Clarke has the same skill Flann O'Brien poured into The Third Policeman for making insane worlds feel as solid as our own, Sunday Times

A dazzling fable about loneliness, imagination and memory, Spectator

Beautiful and bewitchingly strange

, Mail on Sunday
'Just read Susanna Clarke's extraordinary Piranesi . Like nothing else' Justine Jordan, Guardian The long-awaited return from the author of the multi-million copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has? Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell transported over four million readers into its mysterious world. It became an instant classic and has been hailed as one of the finest works of fiction of the twenty-first century. Fifteen years later, it is finally time to enter the House and meet Piranesi. May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty. 'A book to look out for in 2020' - Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Express, SFX 'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost, and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls!' MADELINE MILLER 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside' DAVID MITCHELL 'Piranesi is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves. This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN
Biografía del autor
Susanna Clarke's debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. She lives in Derby shire.

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