Piranesi
Susanna Clarke ยท 2020
How long does it take to read Piranesi?
About 5 hours 26 minutes
272 pages at 50 pages an hour. 11 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. 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. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth full of startling images of surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds. This description comes from the publisher.
How long does it take to read Piranesi?
Piranesi is 272 pages, so it takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 7 hours 46 minutes; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 4 hours.
How many days to read Piranesi at 20 minutes a day?
About 17 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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