Piranesi

Piranesi lives in the House, an infinite labyrinth of marble halls where tides surge through the lower floors and clouds gather near the ceilings. He keeps meticulous journals, tends the bones of the dead, and believes himself one of only two living people in the world. Then evidence of a third begins to appear. Susanna Clarke’s slim, luminous novel is a puzzle and a fable about solitude and wonder. Guillermo del Toro called it an amazing labyrinth, brief but profound and unforgettable.