Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize

Piranesi

Name: Piranesi
ISBN: 6586015316

by Susanna Clarke

Recorded edition: · November 22, 2021 · ISBN 6586015316 · Edition source

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First publication: 2020. Publication dates and pagination vary by edition.

Book-club discussion

Suggested questions based on the book’s premise and form.

What does the journal format let the reader understand, and what does it leave uncertain?
How does the House shape your understanding of the narrator?

What is this book about?

Piranesi takes the form of a journal written inside the House, a vast structure that appears to extend without limit. The setting supplies the novel’s central mystery: the reader encounters this world through the account of someone living within it. This is Susanna Clarke’s second novel, published sixteen years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

It belongs to speculative fiction and won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Its journal format offers a different starting point from the historical setting of Clarke’s debut.