SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT
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
'A gem of genuine absurdism' - Holly Pester
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