Monumenta
About this book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS McKITTERICK PRIZE 2025
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What Massacre? Which One?
- Chapter 2: Karl’s Monument
- Chapter 3: Night Terrors
- Chapter 4: Misha’s Monument
- Chapter 5: Hilde and Danilo’s Massacres
- Chapter 6: Chara’s Monument
- Chapter 7: This Family Home Is a Monument
- Chapter 8: Branko
- Acknowledgements
