Do you like a mind fuck in your novels? Really? Me too?

Piranesi

Written by the author of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell – this is my favourite kind of book, where both reader and the viewpoint character have know idea what’s going on at the start of the book. I’m probably not explaining it well, so I’ll let the blurb speak for itself.

“Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.”

– Description on Goodreads

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