New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,an intoxicatinghypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infiniteits corridors endlessits walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statueseach one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircasesrooms 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 Otherwho visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi exploresevidence emerges of another personand a terrible truth begins to unravelrevealing 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 CircePiranesi introduces an astonishing new worldan infinite labyrinthfull of startling images and surreal beautyhaunted by the tides and the clouds.
