Monumenta

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ISBN: 9781805301967

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Haworth, Lara
Pub Date	04/07/2024
Binding	Hardback
Pages	144

Publisher: CANONGATE

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An award-winning writer's literary debut novel on familial love and loss

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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