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Monumenta
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT 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...
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An award-winning writer's literary debut novel on familial love and loss
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT
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.
Olga can't allow them to unearth the secrets held in this space, not until she reunites with her children for a final dinner. Her aspirational, distant daughter, Hilde, and her secretly queer son, Danilo, both reluctantly agree to fly back to Belgrade.
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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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805301967
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 204.0mm
Weight: 228g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
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
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