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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED 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
