I read this book after living the same author's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Piranesi is a very different book but equally enjoyable and interesting. It has an original plot line with a parallel world.
The book opens with Piranesi, a youngish man who inhabits The House, describing the rooms and tides of the enormous and sprawling dwelling, which he believes is the entire world. There is clearly a mystery about this but the author does not give the game away too soon and it is a puzzle trying to think what exactly is happening.
Although the house appears to be limitless, Piranesi's personal world is minute. He knows of only himself and one other man who live in the world, along with a handful of skeletons of former inhabitants. Although Piranesi's life is hard and he spends his time doing basic tasks for surviving (except for time spent writing in his journal), he is extremely grateful to the house and looks upon it with a near religious reference.
But even in this calm world, things can't stay the same forever...
I thoroughly recommend this book for lovers of fantasy.
The book opens with Piranesi, a youngish man who inhabits The House, describing the rooms and tides of the enormous and sprawling dwelling, which he believes is the entire world. There is clearly a mystery about this but the author does not give the game away too soon and it is a puzzle trying to think what exactly is happening.
Although the house appears to be limitless, Piranesi's personal world is minute. He knows of only himself and one other man who live in the world, along with a handful of skeletons of former inhabitants. Although Piranesi's life is hard and he spends his time doing basic tasks for surviving (except for time spent writing in his journal), he is extremely grateful to the house and looks upon it with a near religious reference.
But even in this calm world, things can't stay the same forever...
I thoroughly recommend this book for lovers of fantasy.