7/6/2023 0 Comments Goodreads piranesiThis book is just so creative and unlike anything else I’ve read. I loved the House and his descriptions of it. Who is the Other, and where does he go between meetings? How does Piranesi know, like, how to do math if he grew up alone in the House? Puzzling through this mystery felt gradual and inevitable as the book went on, but it was still fun to watch the pieces come together in Piranesi’s mind. The story is told in the form of his journal entires over the course of six months or so.Īlmost from the beginning, we as readers know something is up, even though Piranesi is content. He spends his time exploring, cataloging the halls, and gathering food to live on (mostly fish). This man’s only friend, the Other, calls him Piranesi, even though he doesn’t think that’s his name. The main character of the book is a man who lives in the House, aka a vast network of hundreds and hundreds grand halls filled with statues, with sky in the floors above and tides in the floors below. And so it won’t come as any surprise that I really liked Piranesi. I wasn’t aware that a book could even do that … and yet here we are. If there was ever going to be a book for me, it’s one that gets shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and nominated for the Hugo Award. “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
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