Piranesi

What it's about

Piranesi lives in the House, an endless series of halls filled with thousands of marble statues, where tides surge through the lower floors and clouds drift through the upper ones. He believes only one other living person exists, the Other, a man he meets twice a week to help with research into a secret knowledge. Piranesi records everything in his journals. But as strange messages appear, and his own journal begins to contradict him, he starts to question what he knows.

Why it's worth reading

It won the Women's Prize for Fiction and was a Hugo and Nebula finalist. It's short, strange and beautiful, and has been called one of the most original novels of its decade.

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Good to know

It's confusing at first, on purpose. It's best read knowing as little as possible.