thoughts on Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi"

Preliminary remark: This post is not a "book review" in the strict sense. It's not my aim to rate how "good" or "bad" it is from an analytical standpoint. I'm merely collecting some thoughts here. Some of them might be review-like, others not so much. This is the first English book that I've read in a few months, and it's great to be able to write about it. I usually read Japanese books, often…