A vast building, where endless rooms stretch into one another, connected by a labyrinth of corridors and staircases. Thousands of statues line the walls; the ground floor is an ocean, and at high tide, waves thunder up the stairwells. Piranesi lives in this building. He has dedicated his life to exploring it. And the further he ventures into its interconnected rooms, the closer he comes to the truth—the truth about the world beyond the building. And the truth about himself.
About the author:
Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959 and spent her childhood in northern England and Scotland. In 1981, she graduated from St. Hilda's College, Oxford, with degrees in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She then worked in publishing for eight years before teaching in Turin and Bilbao. In 1992, she returned to England and began writing. Her debut novel, *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*, was published in 2004, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Hugo Gernsback Award, the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. It spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into a television series by the BBC in 2015.
