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- ISBN 9781805301967
- Weight: 228g
- Dimensions: 135 x 204mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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
Lara Haworth is a writer, filmmaker and a political researcher, specialising in the UK's move to become carbon zero by 2050. Having turned an extract from Monumenta into a short story, she won a Bridport prize for it in October 2022. In the same year she won a prize for her poem 'The Thames Barrier' in the Café Writers Poetry Competition, wrote and narrated a podcast, The Swimming Pool, for NTS radio and was commissioned to write a long autofiction feature, Mistakes are Pure Colour, for Extra Extra Magazine. Her writing workshop, Letters That Will Never Be Sent, was featured in a BBC World Service documentary. Her film, All the People I Hurt With My Wedding, won the LGBT prize at the Athens International Monthly Film Festival, and her latest film, Grief is a Hungry Ghost, has premiered at festivals including Japan International, New York Tri-State and Munich New Wave. Monumenta is her first novel.
larahaworth.com | @larahaworth | @lara_haworth
