![]() ![]() 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.Īnd that’s all we know. 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. Chances are, in fact, that you know as much about the new book as I do, which is to say, everything about it that’s been revealed to the general public: It’s called Piranesi it’s Clarke’s first novel since her actual first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, became one of the unlikeliest runaway successes in the history of the fantasy genre way back in 2004 (mountains of copies sold, editions in 34 languages, awards recognition, a BBC adaptation) it’s due out in September it’s set inside a house so impossibly vast that it contains (or as the publicity text intriguingly says, “imprisons”) an entire ocean its title character is a man who spends his life exploring this mysterious and labyrinthine and generally impossible-seeming ocean-bearing structure and its plot … well, let’s go back to the publicity copy: If you’re someone who might be excited by that sentence, chances are you knew and were excited long before you opened this article. ![]() Susanna Clarke has a new novel coming out later this year. Welcome to Ringer Reads, a semiregular column by Brian Phillips about his favorite books, writers, and various literary happenings. ![]()
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