Book Info
Name of Book : Piranesi
Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Publication Date : 273
No. of Pages : 273
Format : DRC
Why did I choose the book ?
I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke as a part of buddy read on Instagram.
Where to get the book ?
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is available on Amazon :
Author Introduction
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.
Blurb
Piranesi'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. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, 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.
For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
My Opinion
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a wonderful work transcending us into a parallel world. At first, the plot did not made any sense to me. But, still I felt that there is something more to the story. So, I continued further and after completing half of the book it became so interesting. The book needs patience if you really want to enjoy the book. Piranesi starts with only two characters at first and then slowly and slowly gains momentum. With a perfect atmosphere, it keeps going better and better.
One more thing I want to mention is that the book ends in a major cliffhanger. I was hoping that the book never ends. And, the climax somewhere gives a hint of prequel and sequel. It was my first book on magical realism and it was a real page turner and mind blowing. Definitely the book deserves 5 stars.
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