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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monument to a massacre.But Olga can't allow the council to unearth the secrets held in this space, not until she reunites with her children, who reluctantly agree to fly back to Belgrade for a final dinner. 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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Monumenta, Lara Haworth
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- Released
- 2025
- Binding
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- Title
- Monumenta
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lara Haworth
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Released
- 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 1837260761
- ISBN13
- 9781837260768
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Family, Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, British Literature, Europe, Novellas, Magical Realism, Socialism, Rebellion, Uprising, Surveillance, monitoring, Oppression, Serbia, Berlin Wall
- Description
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monument to a massacre.But Olga can't allow the council to unearth the secrets held in this space, not until she reunites with her children, who reluctantly agree to fly back to Belgrade for a final dinner. 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.