{"product_id":"9781804272114","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf's The Waves, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA surreal musing, Ruins, Child 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":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51430167085302,"sku":"9781804272114","price":89.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/81HhSrALy3L._AC_UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1785739918","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9781804272114","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}