Piranesi

Name: Piranesi
Price: 2.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (45185 reviews)
Author: Susanna Clarke

by Susanna Clarke

Literary Fiction Fantasy

4.4 (45,185)

4.4 stars from 45,185 reviews. One of the highest rated Literary Fiction books we track.

272 pages~4.5 hr readPublished by Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished 2020-01-01

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Price history: $1.99 – $13.60

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Perfect for you if...

You love atmospheric, surreal fiction that feels more like a fever dream than a plot you can predict.
You enjoy slow-burn reveals where the real story emerges gradually, recontextualising everything you thought you knew.
You appreciate prose that lingers on beauty and strangeness rather than rushing through events.

Maybe not for you if...

You need clear answers and tidy resolutions; this book trusts you to sit with ambiguity.
You prefer fast-paced narratives with immediate stakes; Piranesi moves at its own meditative pace.
You're looking for traditional fantasy with magic systems and epic quests.

About this book

Piranesi is a fantasy novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. The protagonist lives in an extraordinary house with infinite rooms, endless corridors, and thousands of statues lining its walls. Within this labyrinth, an ocean is imprisoned, with waves that thunder up staircases and flood rooms without warning. Piranesi navigates this space with understanding, spending his time exploring the house. A man called The Other visits Piranesi twice a week to request help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. As Piranesi continues to explore, he discovers evidence of another person in the house, and a terrible truth begins to emerge—one that reveals a world beyond what he has always known.

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$1.99 – $13.60

Currently on sale at $2.99 — 78% off peak. Price has dropped 18 times over the last 5 years. Goes on sale roughly every 108 days. Typically stays discounted for 7 days.

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Currently #3,817 in the Kindle store — a top-10K bestseller. Climbing the charts — 72% improvement recently.

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Currently 4.4★ from 45,185 reviews

Gaining approximately 529 new reviews per month. Reader interest is surging. Rating has remained stable at 4.4 over the tracking period.

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