Picked up this book at the English Book Swap, at Starbucks Stauffacher.

"Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known."

UPDATE September 2023: This book is so…odd! I couldn’t quite tell what genre it is: fantasy, sci-if, thriller? It’s a story about getting lost in a magical world, and as I’m not too good with reviewing books without giving away some of the plot, I’ll just stop here. Although confusing at time, I really loved the book.

At the book buffet

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Je l'ai en français, je vais essayer de le recommander...

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I found the beginning very long and muddled and rather unnerving. Then I began to understand what it was all about and it became better. I still have a question : was it supposed to be fantastic or is it just the narration of a horrible experiment ?

Ce livre a été apporté par Laure69. Intrigué par 1. Une ecrivaine que je n'ai jamais lue, Susanna Clarke et 2. Un ouvrage avec un satyre jouant de la flûte double antique debout sur une colonne grecque ça avait de quoi me tenter.
Et qui plus est Piranesi... paraît être au programme.
Récupéré à Strasbourg en un samedi 7 septembre estival sur une place du Château grouillant de monde.

Hello Mankyi !

Drowned halls. A couple of albatrosses come in. I thought about mythology. A daedalus without its Minotaur. Or maybe the Minotaur is the idea itself of this book: sci-fi ? An elaborate trompe-l'œil ? I was curious to discover some magic world but I won't read it further than p.40.
I tried.
Not the ideal reader of this book.

Il ne t'est jamais donné de rêve sans le pouvoir de le réaliser. (Richard Bach)


Quite close to 🚊 tramway stop La Dode. Watch one of the silly poles by Éric Hattan. As some poles aren't regular ones but artworks 😀
Eric Hattan was born in Wettingen (Switzerland) in 1955.
Eric Hattan some artworks