The first book of 2022 has us revisiting one of our favorite authors of bookclub past: Susanna Clarke writer of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. This month, we’ll be taking a look at Clarke’s newest, Piranesi.
Here’s the summary:
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
It’s a shorter book, so there’s plenty of time to read it before we meet!
The live-streamed discussion of Piranesi will occur Friday, January 28th7th at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page.
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