Piranesi

A house with endless halls, crumbling statues, and an ocean trapped within its walls. This is Piranesi’s world, a labyrinth both beautiful and treacherous. He is its lone inhabitant – except for the mysterious Other, who seeks knowledge within its depths. But when messages appear, whispering of another reality, Piranesi’s world fractures. Is the House his home, or is it something more sinister? As forgotten truths resurface, Susanna Clarke weaves a tale of mystery, memory and the search for what lies in the unknown.

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.