![]() ![]() The combined talents of Clarke and Ejiofor make you believe in him, and even like him, despite his maddeningly stubborn desire to cling to what he thinks of as truths, however logically inconsistent they are. Piranesi is available on Bloomsbury audio, 6hr 58min. Ejiofor has to make you accept that Piranesi genuinely believes and to a great extent enjoys and reveres his patchwork existence. “Piranesi’s” time spent in the House has transformed him into a kind, intelligent, amnesiac naif. The listener clearly knows that that’s not the case, and it’s almost upsetting waiting for the protagonist (whom the Other calls Piranesi, although that’s not his name) to slowly and extremely reluctantly allow himself to doubt, as new people appear in the House and his own forgotten journals suggest the existence of at least one other world, one which will be very familiar to the listener.Īctor Chiwetel Ejiofor isn’t just narrating he’s playing a role, in an amazingly convincing way. An audiobook version is narrated by the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. The book follows on from Clarke’s debut novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004). He also believes that the only other person he knows, a man he calls the Other, has only the most noble of intentions. Piranesi is a fantasy novel written by Susanna Clarke and was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 15 September 2020. Piranesis house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless. This discrepancy doesn’t seem to bother him, though. Download Or Read PDF Piranesi Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook. He believes that this is the entire world, and apparently, the only world he’s ever known – except that his journal entries make constant references to concepts and things that require knowledge of things outside the House. The protagonist of this short work lives in the House, a building so big it has clouds in the upper floors and an ocean in the lower ones. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke Chiwetel Ojiofor, narrator ( Bloomsbury, $16.35, digital download, 7 hr., unabridged) September 2020. ![]()
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