Piranesi [Hardcover]

The award-winning,New York Timesbestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,Piranesiis an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author ofJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Spellbinding, strange, and unforgettably original (Esquire),Piranesiintroduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty.

[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake& rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow. The New YolãT