Piranesi (Signed Book)
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- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA (Limited Issue, Author Signed Hardcover Edition)
- ISBN
- 9781635576719
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building. Its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, and its walls are lined with thousands of statues. Within this labyrinth, an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases and tides flood the lower halls. He believes he is the sole living inhabitant, aside from the Other, a man who visits twice a week to research a Great and Secret Knowledge hidden somewhere within the walls. Piranesi is a scientist and an explorer, content to map the rhythms of his world, which he sees not as a prison, but as a place of immeasurable beauty.
This quiet existence is thrown into question when journal entries appear that he does not remember writing. Evidence emerges of someone else's presence, a stranger who threatens to reveal a terrible truth and unravel everything Piranesi understands about his world and himself. The clues force him to confront the possibility that the House is not what it seems and that a world may exist beyond its walls. This is a story about the nature of reality, memory, and the profound discoveries that lie in wait when one dares to question the foundations of their identity.
This quiet existence is thrown into question when journal entries appear that he does not remember writing. Evidence emerges of someone else's presence, a stranger who threatens to reveal a terrible truth and unravel everything Piranesi understands about his world and himself. The clues force him to confront the possibility that the House is not what it seems and that a world may exist beyond its walls. This is a story about the nature of reality, memory, and the profound discoveries that lie in wait when one dares to question the foundations of their identity.
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