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Monumenta
- Author
- Lara Haworth
- Narrator
- Lara Haworth
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 2 August 2018
- Run Time
- 3 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
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Details
- Author
- Lara Haworth
- Narrator
- Lara Haworth
- Duration
- 3 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 August 2018
- ISBN
- 9781837265275
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED 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*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'Surreal, quirky, playful and serious' PRISCILLA MORRIS'A gem of genuine absurdism' HOLLY PESTER
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