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Bestseller del New York Times
Ganador del Women's Prize for Fiction
Finalista de World Fantasy Awards
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
World Fantasy Awards Finalist Chosen as a book of the year by the the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 'one of our greatest living authors.' (New York Magazine) Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
Review Quotes: La crítica ha dicho...
«Nos recuerda el poder de la ficción para llevarnos a otro mundo y ampliar así la comprensión del nuestro. [...] Supera las expectativas en todo.» --The Guardian
«Como un sueño febril: desorientador, fascinante, persistentemente extraño. [...] Se introduce en el subconsciente con acertijos que van mucho más allá de la última página. Brillante y singular.» --The Sunday Times
«Una lectura sutilmente cómica y completamente seductora.» --Daily Mail
«Espectacular. [...] Una segunda novela que roza la perfección.» --The Times
«Una fábula deslumbrante sobre la soledad, la imaginación y la memoria.» --The Spectator
«Bella, extraña, fascinante.» --Mail on Sunday
«¿Por qué no atreverse con el nuevo libro de Susanna Clarke para viajar al subconsciente sin necesidad de tomar nada?» --New York Magazine
«Una lectura adictiva de máxima calidad. [...] Una hazaña sobresaliente.» --The Wall Street Journal
«El ingenio y la imaginación singulares de Clarke siguen intactos. Una historia mucho más comprimida pero no menos cautivadora.» --The Boston Globe
«De una agudeza inmensa.» --The Washington Post