Piranesi

Well, this is about this house, and...

Wait, no, there's this guy they call Piranesi...

Piranesi is in this giant labyrinth of many halls that has doors and windows and also has oceans, birds and fish, and many statues. As he maps out and studies his environment, he rediscovers how he got there in the first place and interacts with some extremely unpleasant academic types.

Part of the mystery is figuring out the situation itself, and the reader learns along with Piranesi.

Whatever it's about, Clarke is a very skilled writer and this is a beautiful book. I was enthralled with this right from the start. It's a unique little novel, I don't think I've read another I could compare to it.

Selfishly, I wish she were a bit more prolific. But to paraphrase Harlan Ellison, it's easier to read than to have ideas.