![]() ![]() We’ve had a year like no other, and we feel that we’ve got a winner like no other. “But we went for something that was totally original. “It was difficult because this year’s shortlist was so varied,” said Mee. Judge Sarah-Jane Mee, the news broadcaster, said it had been “really tough” to choose a winner from the shortlist of six novels, which ranged from Brit Bennett’s bestseller The Vanishing Half, about identical twin sisters, one of whom “passes” for white, to Cherie Jones’s debut of murder and violence on Barbados, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. ![]() She thanked her editor, Alexandra Pringle, and her agent, Jonny Geller, both of whom “immediately had faith in what I thought was a very odd book indeed”, and “most of all” her husband, the novelist and critic Colin Greenland, “without whose support the book simply would not have been written”. And my hope is that my standing here tonight will encourage other women who are incapacitated by long illness.” So this feels doubly extraordinary I’m doubly honoured to be here. It is the book that I never thought I would get to write – I never thought I’d be well enough. ![]() She told the audience: “As some of you will know, Piranesi was nurtured, written and publicised during a long illness. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the RSVP link as soon as it’s available.As Piranesi records the wonders of the house in his journal – the birds and the clouds in its upper realms the tides that move through it – he has regular meetings with a mysterious Other, the only person he believes to be alive, until he finds signs of another visitor.Ĭlarke was visibly emotional as she accepted the £30,000 award, describing it as an “immense, incredible honour”. Here’s the full Vox Book Club schedule for September 2021įriday, September 17: Discussion post on Piranesi published to Vox.comĭate TBA: Virtual live event with author Susanna Clarke. Subscribe to our newsletter and we’ll let you know the RSVP details as soon as we have them, and in the meantime, you can catch up on our Piranesi review from last year here. Then, at the end of the month, we’ll be meeting with Susanna Clarke herself (!!!) live on Zoom. We’ll talk about the Narnia parallels, the Jonathan Strange parallels, and what Piranesi has learned from his house. So gentle and compelling is his voice that when you read the book, you can feel yourself getting swallowed up by Piranesi’s beloved house, and by Piranesi’s terrible, radiant innocence.Īs the Vox Book Club reconvenes for September, we’re coming back in style by reading Piranesi. He calls himself the house’s Beloved Child. He loves his life, and he loves the house. Norrell, it tells the story of a man called Piranesi, living all alone in a vast and flooded marble house, full of statues.Īs far as Piranesi knows, the house is the only thing in the world, and he himself one of the only living men in it. From the author of the much-beloved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Susanna Clarke’s haunting, haunted Piranesi is one of the most astonishing books I’ve read in a very long time, sort of Narnia meets Paradise Lost meets Borges. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers. ![]()
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