Susanna Clarke

Book Club: Susannah Clarke | Piranesi

Recorded: Sun 14 Nov 2021

Duration: 1 hour

Book Club: Susannah Clarke | Piranesi

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.

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