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Narrated by:
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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By:
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Susanna Clarke
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Bloomsbury presents Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES' 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME MAGAZINE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BBC CULTURE, NETGALLEY AND THE CHURCH TIMES
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, ‘one of our greatest living authors’ New York Magazine
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
*****
'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being … Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL
‘It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly’ Guardian
'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER
‘Brilliantly singular’ Sunday Times
'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery … This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN
‘Head-spinning … Fully imagined and richly evoked’ Telegraph
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The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor.
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Slow Start, Strong Finish
- By Jacob McCollum on 05-01-23
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Sleeping Giants
- By: Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
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BLUES BROTHERS
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-04-16
By: Sylvain Neuvel
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FantasticLand
- A Novel
- By: Mike Bockoven
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.
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Absurd...But awesome
- By T.J. on 11-12-17
By: Mike Bockoven
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Buried Deep and Other Stories
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Nicholas Guy Smith, Imani Jade Powers, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories.
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Outstanding collection!
- By Joella Berkner on 11-13-24
By: Naomi Novik
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The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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For five grand a month and a million-dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn't care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year. But they didn't tell him about the pixies.
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I LOVED this book!
- By Kristin Butner on 04-24-21
By: Nathan Lowell
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Daughters of Sparta
- A Novel
- By: Claire Heywood
- Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships - but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister, Klytemnestra.
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At LAST!!!
- By DAVID and FAITH on 07-15-21
By: Claire Heywood
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The Beast's Heart
- A Novel of Beauty and the Beast
- By: Leife Shallcross
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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He is a broken, wild thing, his heart’s nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined château with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company - until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation. Bewitched by the man’s dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the château. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father’s life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year.
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I love Jim Dale
- By Maria on 03-16-19
By: Leife Shallcross
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Medusa
- By: Jessie Burton
- Narrated by: Alisha Bailey
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashing desire, love and betrayal....
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Good listen
- By Cassie on 09-19-23
By: Jessie Burton
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The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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THE STUPIDITIES OF COURT
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-01-17
By: John Scalzi
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The Teller of Small Fortunes
- By: Julie Leong
- Narrated by: Phyllis Ho
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…
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Delightful
- By Emily turton on 12-13-24
By: Julie Leong
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- By: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- By Steven L Peck on 06-24-21
By: Jonathan Meiburg
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
- By: Theodora Goss
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' deaths, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture...a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns.
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Cute, erratic, sloppy but not without charm
- By Rachel on 07-07-17
By: Theodora Goss
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- Henry V
- 02-26-21
Fascinating Social Study
The book is a wonderful mashup of Plato, CS Lewis, and Borges. I completely agree with the rave reviews. Clarke has written a masterpiece.
And the reaction to it is a fascinating social study. Half the audible readers think the book is genius. The other half think it’s boring, predictable, nonsensical. One reviewer characterizes the book as a string of random scenes.
It makes me wonder, Are we all reading the same book?
No of course we aren’t. We each bring to it our own experiences. As with all books. But something special must be happening here for the reviews to be so polarized. I’d like to take a stab at an explanation.
Piranesi enthralled me because it brought up so many of my feelings around losing my worldview in my twenties. I can imagine that people who have not had to go through this experience will not be as amazed by how Clarke has conveyed it. She paints it precisely. She made me relive it.
Also, if you are not familiar with Plato and Lewis and Borges, you might not realize the ideas Clarke is playing with. You might be thinking about the Plot when she is thinking about the Meaning. It’s not a small thing for this author to add something fresh and exciting to a 3,000 year old conversation.
Finally, I loved the book because I loved the main character. His optimism, skepticism, precision, and earnestness totally won me over. I would have followed him on any adventure. But maybe you like your main characters to be powerful, in control, hardboiled. Maybe you did not feel what I felt, a love for his childlike goodness and sense of wonder. He made me feel acutely just how much I have lost by becoming modern, adult, and sophisticated. And that is the magic of the book.
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- G. Eidinov
- 10-06-20
Simply amazing. In the original sense of the word.
This was a perfection in writing augmented only further (if that was possible) by the delivery.
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- Mike in MI
- 03-26-21
Spectacular
I read this book twice in less than three days. It was that captivating -- and Ejiofor's reading was equal to the text. I'm sum, no matter how many times I read it again, I want this to be the last book I'll read before I die.
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- Another Book Lady
- 07-18-21
Entry for the 17th in the Seventh Month In The Year the Shipoo Came to the North-Eastern Hall
“Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people. Possibly there have been more; but I am a scientist and must proceed according to the evidence. Of the fifteen people whose existence is verifiable, only Myself and the Other are now living.”
-Part One, Page 7
I admit, I was a little lost when I started reading this book, but found myself completely absorbed shortly thereafter.
I listened to the Audible narration while I followed along with the hardback book my mother gifted to me this last Christmas. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s reading is masterful and brings Piranesi to life.
Piranesi lives in a house of endless rooms, endless corridors, and an infinite number of statues. There is a vast ocean contained in this house. He believes that only two people exist in this world; himself and a man called The Other. One day Piranesi discovers that another person has come into his house and brings with them an awful truth that will forever change The World he has always known.
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- Caroline
- 05-06-21
Great but best in long sittings
While this is a fantastic story and sharply written, it’s one of those novels that probably works better as a book rather than an audiobook. It can be confusing at the beginning, especially if your only listing to shorter stretches, but I found that listing to it in few sittings, the story really sings. Would be great for a road trip or project—anything where you can get in 2+ hours in at a time.
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- Karen V.
- 07-04-23
Like peeling an onion to get to the rose
This book was hard for me to get into at first because of the style in which it was written with so many references to an obscure date system and detailed directions that the protagonist goes through to get around, but once I looked past that, I did get into the story. It did strange things to my perception. First, I felt sorry for the protagonist. Then, I felt he was obstinately obtuse to the clues he was given, then I had to reflect on whether his viewpoint was the sage one in the end. Overall, the book made me philosophize and that is a valuable gift.
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- Quicksilver Girl
- 07-05-23
This one will stay with you…
This is some of the best narration I’ve ever experienced… The lyrical performance kept me committed, and even eager, for the arguably obscure story. I wrestled to define it: Symbolic? Surrealist? Esoteric? Nonsense? And I gave up, surrendering to the beauty of the verse. In the end, does it really matter if the house is real? Or in his mind? Or a social metaphor? This one will stay with you…
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- Christian Michael
- 06-24-23
Evocative of Jules Verne
Chock-full of symbolism and dramatic irony, this is a book that is both tactile and cerebrally detached. This is even more impressive when considering the surreal and original setting. The style and format reminded me of 20,000 leagues, only abstract in a good way.
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- Jimho
- 07-14-23
Sad it Ended
I usually rush to the end of a story or try to get spoilers. This story was one I savored to the very end. Listening was a wondering and wonderful experience.
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- djdewlap
- 06-13-23
Unique story and excellent narration
I have never read a story quite like this and really enjoyed the gradual unfolding of the plot. Perfect narration
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