New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange amp Mr Norrell an intoxicating hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesis 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 housea 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. For readers of Neil Gaimans The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Millers Circe Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world an infinite labyrinth full of startling images and surreal beauty haunted by the tides and the clouds. show more