Monumenta

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024
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

Hersteller:	Canongate Books (Edinburgh)
Anschrift:	14 High Street GB-EH1 1TE Edinburgh
Kontakt:	info@canongate.co.uk
Verantwortlicher:	BGC Sustainability & Compliance
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Lara Haworth was born in Bruxelles and raised in South London. A recipient of a Bridport Prize and a Café Writers Award in 2022, her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Extra Extra, Field, ACME and Feels. Her first film, All the People I Hurt with My Wedding, won best LGBT film at the Athens International Film Festival and her second, Grief is a Hungry Ghost, has premiered at festivals including Japan International, New York Tri-State and Munich New Wave. Her debut novel, Monumenta, was published by Canongate in July 2024 and shortlisted for a Nero Prize.

Absurdist and humane, this is a laser-sharp work of concentrated brilliance. Encompassing family and history, politics and love, Monumenta is surprising, original and so assured WENDY ERSKINE