Experience the magic of The Book Thief with this enchanting Folio edition. Created in close collaboration with the author and featuring illustrations by Alexis Deacon, this is a reading experience that will stay with you forever.
Piranesi
Illustrated by Julian de Narvaez
Afterword by the author
First Printing
Step into the labyrinthine beauty of Piranesi’s world – a House filled with endless halls and infinite mysteries. Susanna Clarke’s luminous novel is both dream and puzzle. With illustrations from Julian De Narvaez.
US$95.00
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Editor’s Note
- Sophia Schoepfer, Editor
Open the pages and enter the labyrinthine House, where tides fill the monumental Halls, and the corridors and vestibules are home to thousands upon thousands of statues. This is the realm of Piranesi, the titular character of Susanna Clarke's poignant novel that examines, among other things, the beauty and sorrow of solitude. It is a truly ingenious puzzle of a book – one that’s best discovered firsthand. The less you know at the outset, the more captivated you'll be.
Bound in deep blues and gleaming golds, this Folio edition is as beautiful and enigmatic as its contents. The artist Julin De Narvaez has distilled the mystery and majesty of the House into six gorgeous illustrations, while a brand-new afterword by the author offers a glimpse into the sparks of inspiration that led to Piranesi's creation.
Bound in printed and blocked textured paper
Set in Perpetua
248 pages
6 colour illustrations including 1 double-page spread
Black and white title-page spread illustration and 1 black-and-white part title image
Gilded top edge
Die-cut and blocked slipcase
8¾˝ x 5½˝
Printed in Germany
‘A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery. This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered.’
- Erin Morgenstern
A house with endless halls, crumbling statues, and an ocean trapped within its walls. This is Piranesi’s world, a labyrinth both beautiful and treacherous. He is its lone inhabitant — except for the mysterious Other, who seeks knowledge within its depths. But when messages appear, whispering of another reality, Piranesi’s world fractures. Is the House his home, or is it something more sinister? As forgotten truths resurface, Susanna Clarke weaves a spellbinding tale of mystery, memory and the search for what lies in the unknown.
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