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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2020
Format:  Hardcover, Paperback, audiobook, and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
Genre:  Dark Fantasy Fiction

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “PIRANESI”

I got the book with Libby, and I picked it because I have seen this book in Barnes and Nobles, and in several bookish blogs and social media.

The book was a bit weird at the beginning, then I in my opinion, became fascinating, and towards the end was ok.

There was suspense, confusion, drama, and fantasy. It was hard to follow and at the same time it was fascinating to read.

I want to read more books of Susanna Clark as I am incredible surprised of her imagination.

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

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.
 

MY RATING: 4.0

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a best-seller.

Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). Both Clarke’s novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. While Strange focuses on the relationship of two men, Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell, the stories in Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic.

Bibliography:

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• The Wood at Midwinter
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other Stories