Piranesi
2020
Fantasy
A slim, dreamlike novel told as the journal entries of a man who calls himself Piranesi, living in an endless classical labyrinth of marble halls, statues, tides, and birds. The only other inhabitant is a figure he knows as the Other, who visits twice a week to pursue what he calls the great and secret knowledge. As Piranesi begins to notice anomalies in his own journals and traces of a sixteenth person, the metaphysics of the House — Plato's forms, C.S. Lewis's woods between worlds, the limits of memory and personal identity — begin to come apart. Won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.