Author: Haworth, Lara
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 27 February 2025 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 144 pages
129 x 199 x 11 | 108g
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A 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