{"product_id":"9781804272114-ruins-child","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe winner of the 2024 Novel Prize, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often  vernacular, often overheard. It’s a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro’s female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56729134465398,"sku":"9781804272114","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38808132.jpg?v=1764382591","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804272114-ruins-child","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}