An intoxicating, hypnotic new novel by the author of The Raven King, which takes place in a dream-like, alternative reality.

Piranesi's house is not an ordinary building. Its halls are endless, its corridors endless, and its walls are covered with thousands of different statues. An imprisoned ocean stretches between the labyrinthine halls, waves rise thunderingly in the stairwells, flooding the halls in seconds. But Piranesi is not afraid; he knows the tides, just as he navigates the labyrinth. His life is about discovering the house.

In addition to him, there is another person living in the house, a man called the Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week in order to help him track down the Great and Secret Knowledge. But during his research, Piranesi finds evidence of the existence of a third person, and a terrible secret begins to be revealed, which opens a door beyond the world known to Piranesi.

Susanna Clarke's long-awaited second novel takes the reader into a fascinating new world: an endless labyrinth full of surprising images and surreal beauty, haunted by tides and clouds.