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Piranesi: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 (Bloomsbury Publishing) - Hardcover
The Beautiful Orderliness of the House is what gives us Life.
Piranesi has always lived in the House; or, for as long as he can remember.
Day after day, Piranesi records in his notebooks with precision and carefulness the House's endless halls, their great and strange statues, the ebb and flow of the tides within its walls. He speaks to the birds; and brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the House's Dead. Once in a while, he sees his friend the Other. But mostly, he is alone.
Then messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk and spelled out in pebbles. A new person has come to the House, and there is something they are trying to tell Piranesi.
But another story is unfolding, within the pages of Piranesi's own journal. A story written in his own hand, that he cannot remember writing; a story of a group of strangers, in an unfamiliar world.
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
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PRAISE FOR JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL: Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years. It's funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical ... Closing Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell after 800 pages my only regret was that it wasn't twice the length (NEIL GAIMAN)
This is, in both the precise and the colloquial sense, a fabulous book ... a highly original and compelling work (SUNDAY TIMES)
An elegant and witty historical fantasy which deserves to be judged on its own (considerable) merit (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Full of spells, bad weather, statues that talk, haunted ballrooms and sinister gentlemen with thistledown hair ... be enchanted! (ELLE)
The language of the book is such a pleasure you'd probably want to go and read it anyway (LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC 6 MUSIC)
Best novel I've ever read (RICHARD MADELEY)
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This is, in both the precise and the colloquial sense, a fabulous book ... a highly original and compelling work (SUNDAY TIMES)
An elegant and witty historical fantasy which deserves to be judged on its own (considerable) merit (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Full of spells, bad weather, statues that talk, haunted ballrooms and sinister gentlemen with thistledown hair ... be enchanted! (ELLE)
The language of the book is such a pleasure you'd probably want to go and read it anyway (LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC 6 MUSIC)
Best novel I've ever read (RICHARD MADELEY)
The long-awaited return from the author of the multi-million copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1526622424
- ISBN 13 9781526622426
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages272
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781526622426
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