Ruins, Child - Giada Scodellaro maps competing in a chess hall

competing in a chess hall in Cuba

once mediated by a foreman or middle manager

from semiotics to psychoanalysis

this volume offers a manual for meditation

Ruins, Child - Giada Scodellaro maps competing in a chess hallSet 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 Scodellaros 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 Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its