Clarke’s novel has been described as both fantasy and magic realism, both genres that I am typically not drawn to – I haven’t read a fantasy novel in years and the only magic realism novel I have read in recent times is Robbie Arnott’s wonderful Flames – but Piranesi was absorbing from the first chapter and I couldn’t wait to keep returning to this strange and enchanting world that Clarke creates. I was so pleasantly surprised when Piranesi ended up being the best book that I have read this year and one that I would heartily recommend to others. And there was Piranesi waiting for me to remember its existence a mere 272 pages that I could breeze through in the final remaining weeks of the year. As December rolled around and I realised that I was several books short of my yearly reading goal, I began to scan the bookshelves for short reads to finish up the reading year. But it remained forgotten on the shelf for the majority of 2022 as other books stole my attention and enthusiasm. I had been meaning for quite a while to read Piranesi, the 2021 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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