Piranesi
Susanna Clarke • 2020
Devastation Rating
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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