Piranesi

Susanna Clarke 2020

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
loss literary fiction philosophical survival

Our Take

A man lives in a house of infinite halls and tides. Clarke builds this impossible world so precisely that when the truth surfaces it is devastating. Piranesi's innocence is a kind of imprisonment, and his kindness in the face of manipulation is the quiet heartbreak at its centre.

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