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Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke · 2020

Fantasy · ranked #7 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

Winner · The Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021Winner · The World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, 2021

A man lives alone in an endless house of statues and tides; a short, strange, haunting puzzle of a novel.

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The verdict

Category
Fantasy
First published
2020 · 2020s
Author
Susanna Clarke
Standing
Essential Read

About Fantasy

Fantasy builds worlds you can live in. At its richest it works through myth and magic to explore power, courage, identity and what we owe each other — the same concerns as any great literature, but with dragons.

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