Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Standalone
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Magical Realism
Pages: 246 pages (Kindle edition)
Published: 15th September 2020 by Bloomsbury
A genre-blending, memorable, and melancholic standalone novel.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lovely. Odd, incredibly odd, but lovely both in spite of and due to the oddity. There’s an elegance to this book that feels like a rarity. For a novel that is less than 300 pages, Piranesi is quite the slow burn. The first half of this short book took me four days to read. Not that it was boring, mind you. It was meditative, inviting you as the reader to mull and ponder instead of racing forward to see what happens next. But then I read the second half in one sitting. When things finally picked up in the narrative, my attention never wavered.
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”