Piranesi

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Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (Paperback, 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Paperback, 245 pages

Published Sept. 2, 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-5266-2243-3
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4 stars (21 reviews)

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

13 editions

A beautiful book that quiets and comforts my mind

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If we were born in another world what form would the shadows cast upon the walls of our cave take? What mythologies and art would inform our identity? What are the limits that malicious people have to do harm through warping and confining our realities? How does the society around me shape the person I am at any given time?

Piranesi explores these questions in a labyrinth of an endless house full of statues that is flooded by the sea. The answers are in the faces of our neighbors and in the hushing pose of the faun.

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