Piranesi book Why does the cook burn

Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols

and the Saadia version

from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948

or diminished the proud memory of the dazzling civilization

Piranesi book Why does the cook burnFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an