Piranesi

About “Piranesi”

Piranesi is a 2020 novel by Susanna Clarke. The story follows a man named Piranesi who lives in a vast, dreamlike house filled with endless rooms, corridors, and thousands of statues. The house contains an ocean that floods parts of it, and Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides and the structure of the house. He explores the house regularly. There is another person in the house, a man called The Other, who visits twice a week and asks Piranesi for help with research into a secret knowledge. As Piranesi explores, he discovers evidence of another person and begins to uncover a terrible truth about the world beyond the house. The novel is described as a surreal and imaginative story.