Monumenta

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT ''This is a party I''m glad I was invited to'' EILEEN MYLES ''Fizzing with ideas'' OBSERVER * Isn''t every family home a monument? The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author. Olga Pavic''s house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror. Within an atmosphere of razor-sharp political surreality, Lara Haworth spins a tender, magical story of familial love and loss. Via a panoply of perspectives Monumenta compellingly and playfully explores remembrance and how tragedy can be the catalyst for remarkable transformation. * ''Lara Haworth is an important new voice'' CLARE POLLARD ''A laser-sharp work of concentrated brilliance'' WENDY ERSKINE ''Surreal, quirky, playful and serious'' PRISCILLA MORRIS ''A gem of genuine absurdism'' HOLLY PESTER

Product details

• Authors: Lara Haworth
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9781837260768
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-076-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 204 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Serbia, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary