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by Susanna Clarke (Author)
Bestseller del New York Times
Ganador del Women's Prize for Fiction
Finalista de World Fantasy Awards
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
World Fantasy Awards Finalist Chosen as a book of the year by the the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 'one of our greatest living authors.' (New York Magazine) Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
Author Biography
Susanna Clarke (Nottingham, 1959) es licenciada en Oxford. En 1992, al tiempo que publicaba algunos relatos cortos -The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Starlight 1, y Mr. Simonelli, or The Fairy Widower, éste último nominado al World Fantasy Award en 2001-, comenzó a escribir su gran novela, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell, tarea que le llevó más de diez años. Documentada con abundantes y divertidas notas al pie, en las que aparecen tanto los pormenores de los prodigios a los que se alude, como breves ensayos sobre el mundo de los duendes, referencias bibliográficas a libros inventados y antiguas profecías, estas notas certifican que la magia fue un día parte de la vida cotidiana y forman una novela dentro de la novela. Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell ha sido distinguida como Mejor Novela del Año por los libreros independientes de Estados Unidos y se publicará en más de veinte idiomas. Los derechos cinematográficos han sido adquiridos por los productores de El señor de los anillos.
