"The pace of Clarke's storytelling is mesmerising. (.) Piranesi is a portrait of us as young readers, swept into a story and happy to stay there." - Hillary Kelly, The Los Angeles Times (.) (S)he creates a dazzling world of infinite fascination inside the musings of one very simple man. "(A) little imp of a book that packs a punch several times its (relatively) meager page count. But in the end, the elegant and ingenious structure of the novel lends it a haunting quality which would not be nearly as hypnotic were the story told any other way, and "hypnotic" is the term I find myself returning to in trying to account for the novel's strange and powerful magic." - Gary K. Character roles remain shifty and indeterminate for much of the story, and questions of the reliability of memory and testimony are never far from the surface. In place of the wry, knowing Austenian voice of the earlier novel, she offers an ingenuous narrator who remains several steps behind the reader for most of the novel. "With Piranesi, Clarke is knowingly taking a number of risks. The result is a remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention." - Paraic O'Donnell, The Guardian (.) Clarke fuses these themes, seducing us with imaginative grandeur only to sweep that vision away, revealing the monstrosities to which we can not only succumb but wholly surrender ourselves. "(W)here Jonathan Strange was populous and richly polyphonic, Piranesi is a tenebrous study in solitude. 
But as the clues fall into place and the puzzles are resolved, the press of the story cedes centre stage to larger, more tantalising questions." - Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
(.) If this all sounds a bit bonkers, it is ! Like the infinite House, the novel's fantastical plot is one more labyrinthine construction, seductive and captivating and replete with monsters.
"Haunting, tantalising, enigmatic, profound - it is all these and more. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪ- : a very well executed piece of world-building and unraveling Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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