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
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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.
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'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
"A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict" - * Observer *
"Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over" - * Financial Times *
"The satire in Monumenta is loaded without ever feeling overegged because there is so much substance here, so many layers of characterisation and theme running through such a short book that are expressed in some exquisite writing" - * New European *
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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
"A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict" - * Observer *
"Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over" - * Financial Times *
"The satire in Monumenta is loaded without ever feeling overegged because there is so much substance here, so many layers of characterisation and theme running through such a short book that are expressed in some exquisite writing" - * New European *
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