{"product_id":"ruins-child-signed-edition","title":"Ruins, Child (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGiada 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55369144926593,"sku":"9781804272114","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/ruinschild.png?v=1774366427","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/ruins-child-signed-edition","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}