Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Clarke crafts a strange, ethereal setting:  a labyrinthine “House” filled with endless halls, statues, and tides that functions both as a mystery and as a metaphor. The world feels mythic yet personal, suspended between allegory and psychological realism. 

The brilliance lies in Piranesi’s perspective: innocent, methodical, and reverent towards his environment. His journal entries are full of wonder, humility and logic, inviting the readers to piece together the story behind the story.

At its heart, Piranesi is a meditation on memory, loss, resilience and how environments shape identity. It asks what it is to be human when stripped of context, and how we construct meaning from ruins.

I loved it and was lulled by its melodic rhythm, which carried me through the House with  a sense of enchantment. I could not put it down until I had finished it!

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