Sixteen years ago, Suzanne Clarke released Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a book that sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was recognized as a legendary masterpiece: “This could look like the novel “The Master and Margarita” if Dickens wrote it” (A.) Genis); "The best literary fairy tale in the English language in the last seventy years" (H. Gaiman). And finally, we waited for the second novel by Clark .. "This is an event of paramount importance in the world of literature" (Daily Telegraph). For the man we know as Piranesi, a house with a capital letter is a whole world. “Since the beginning of the World, there have been fifteen men in it,” and Piranesi is the fifteenth. He explores the endless Halls adorned with majestic Statues, and makes a schedule of tides sweeping the lower floors. Clouds swim to the upper floors and birds fly in, and on Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi meets the Other. “The beauty of the House is inexpressible,” Piranesi writes in his diary. His kindness is boundless.". But one day he discovers the footprints of a man number sixteen... “Piranesi is an exquisite box with surprises, and inside it is much, much bigger than outside,” writes David Mitchell .. “Fantastic, unlike anything and absolutely necessary reading,” echoes the magazine The Bookseller .. For the first time in Russian!