#Piranesi review new yorker full#

вЂњA novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.вЂќ вЂ•The New Yorker

#Piranesi review new yorker full#

вЂњ flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wakeвЂ¦ rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.вЂќ вЂ•The New York Times Book Review 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.ДЇor readers of Neil GaimanвЂ™s The Ocean at the End of the LaneВ and fans of Madeline MillerвЂ™s Circe, PiranesiВ introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

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 Piranesi is not afraid he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. PiranesiвЂ™s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. The instant New York TimesВ bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality.