So, join us here at The Book Club from Project-Nerd as we spend this month diving into Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. Compared to the weighty, footnoted, 700+ paged Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Piranesi clocks in at a brisk 243 pages, but the surreal and enthralling tale it spins in that short time is unforgettable. Is it any surprise that I would pick this book as my thirtieth of the year As a widow, I journal and journey in a life I did not expect to live, and I still believe I will. It concerns a man called Piranesi (although that is not his name) who lives in a vast House made up of endless marble halls filled with statues. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is about a man known as Piranesi who lives in a big house and explores the labyrinth of rooms and hopes of understanding the meaning. A New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Hugo Award, this adventure into a mysterious and infinite maze of house filled with secrets and wonder is not to missed. Piranesi has a heavily allegorical structure. With all that said, it was not surprising when Clarke’s sophomore novel, Piranesi, was an instant success as well. It was also adapted into a seven-part miniseries by the BBC in 2015. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell went on to win the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel as well as being on the long list for the Man Booker Prize. Often depicted with two faces gazing in opposite directions. Its colossal arches hinted at the nature of the Roman god to whom it was dedicated Janus, the god of gateways, journeys and change. But it also means that by withholding this information from Piranesi, taking. In 1748, Giovanni Battista Piranesi depicted the Temple of Janus overgrown and in a state of disrepair. When the tides comes in, the person is flung around and submerged in water, in fear of death. It opens with someone (Piranesi) wandering the halls and vestibules of an expansive location. ![]() The novel explores themes from friendship to the meaning of Englishness to the boundaries between reason and madness using a mix of various styles and genres as well as literary devices of the era. Part 1: Piranesi The book is written in journal form, with dated entries. ![]() The alternate history fantasy about the return of magic to 19th-century England and the relationship between its namesakes was almost an instant success, shooting to number three on the New York Times bestseller list. Susanna Clarke made quite a splash in 2004 with her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. The Project-Nerd Book Club is here, with our first title in hand.
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