{"product_id":"giada-scodellaro-ruins-child-2026","title":"Giada Scodellaro: Ruins, Child [2026]","description":"\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","brand":"Scodellaro, Giada","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53350864978259,"sku":"9781804272114","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/scodellaro-giada-giada-scodellaro-ruins-child-2026-9781804272114-1229611871.jpg?v=1774648389","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/giada-scodellaro-ruins-child-2026","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}