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Sixteen years ago, Susannah Clarke released Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a book that has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and is hailed as a legendary masterpiece: "This is what The Master and Margarita might have looked like if Dickens had written it." (A. Genis); "The best literary fairy tale in English over the past seventy years" (N. Geiman). And finally, we waited for Clarke's second novel. "This is an event of paramount importance in the world of literature" (Daily Telegraph).
For the man we know as Piranesi, the House with a capital letter is the whole World. “From the beginning of the World, fifteen people definitely existed in it,” and Piranesi is the fifteenth. He explores the endless Halls, adorned with majestic Statues, and schedules the Tides to engulf the floors below. Clouds float on the upper floors and birds fly in, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays Piranesi meets the Other. “The beauty of the House is unspeakable,” Piranesi writes in his diary. “His kindness is boundless.” But one day he discovers the footprints of man number sixteen...

Translator Dobrokhotova-Maykova E.