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Monumenta
ISBN-13: 9781837260768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 144 str.
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 * 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
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 * 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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