![]() He has kept thorough notes on hundreds of rooms, recording their dimensions and their statuary, and he has charted the tides so precisely that he knows when they will tumble up the stairwells and flood his chambers. ![]() Our resourceful hero catches fish and mollusks for food and dries seaweed to make fires for cooking. Only the ground floor is habitable, and here, among a variety of bird life, is the narrator and title character of Susanna Clarke’s bewitching fantasy-adventure “Piranesi” (Bloomsbury, 245 pages, $27). The top contains the clouds and their rainfall. ![]() Each is adorned with classical columns and pediments and filled with spectacular marble statues. ![]() It is three stories high and in all other directions its rooms extend infinitely. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images ![]()
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