Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A strange, beautiful novel about a man who lives alone in a labyrinthine house filled with statues and tidal halls… and slowly comes to realize he doesn’t know who he is or how he got there. It’s unlike anything else, and somehow both deeply weird and deeply moving.
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