Piranesi, performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recommended by kate

in response to Alice

Favorite audiobooks to listen for a loooong drive?

a fantastic audio production of a perfect book. piranesi lives in the infinite House whose halls are lined with infinite statues. clouds gather in the highest levels, and the sea surges below. piranesi doesn't know how he came to be in the House, nor who he is, but he diligently charts the House's tides while laboring to uncover A Great and Secret Knowledge for oliver, a strange man who visits piranesi from time to time. but there is another person in the House... and their presence threatens piranesi's simple world.

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Piranesi

Alina

“A weird and wondrous little book”

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Phoebe Ward

“A surreal novel about a man who lives in a marble labyrinth, of which he is the only inhabitant, except for some birds, marble statues, and one fellow resident, a researcher he reports to and refers to as “Other.” An allegory for the human condition (a myth/fable, I guess, though this doesn’t feel like right word due to Piranesi’s earnest, strange, addictive voice). Like Backrooms if Backrooms was”