Monumenta
- 4 Jul 2024
- 9781805301967
- £12.99
- 144 pp
- 135×204mm
- 27 Feb 2025
- 9781837260768
- £9.99
- 144 pp
- 135×204mm
- 4 Jul 2024
- 9781837261505
- £7.99
- 144 pp
- 27 Feb 2025
- 9781837265275
- £20.99
- 3 hrs 5 min
In a few words
An award-winning writer’s literary debut novel on familial love and loss
In a few words
An award-winning writer’s literary debut novel on familial love and loss
In a few words
An award-winning writer’s literary debut novel on familial love and loss
In a few words
An award-winning writer’s literary debut novel on familial love and loss
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
A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict
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
A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict
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
A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict
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
A deeply political debut novel, fizzing with ideas, examines the difficulties of memorialising the past in a region riven by conflict
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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.
*
‘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
More about
the book
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
*
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
More about
the book
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
*
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
More about
the book
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
*
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
Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over
Surreal, quirky, playful and serious . . . This slip of a book takes us to contemporary Belgrade and explores, with imagination and dark humour, how painful pasts are dealt with personally and publicly, asking questions about the roles of memorialisation, memory, erasure, transformation, grief and healing
Priscilla Morris
Every image is charged with meaning; every word bears the weight of history. Hallucinatory, haunting . . . Lara Haworth is an important new voice in European literature
Clare Pollard
A gem of genuine absurdism, and one that moves so unpredictably along its own structure, touching on – banging on, and knocking down – the fundamentals of buildings and trauma, family and love, reason and history, in a stunning, witty kick of literary brilliance
Holly Pester
Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over
Surreal, quirky, playful and serious . . . This slip of a book takes us to contemporary Belgrade and explores, with imagination and dark humour, how painful pasts are dealt with personally and publicly, asking questions about the roles of memorialisation, memory, erasure, transformation, grief and healing
Priscilla Morris
Every image is charged with meaning; every word bears the weight of history. Hallucinatory, haunting . . . Lara Haworth is an important new voice in European literature
Clare Pollard
A gem of genuine absurdism, and one that moves so unpredictably along its own structure, touching on – banging on, and knocking down – the fundamentals of buildings and trauma, family and love, reason and history, in a stunning, witty kick of literary brilliance
Holly Pester
Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over
Surreal, quirky, playful and serious . . . This slip of a book takes us to contemporary Belgrade and explores, with imagination and dark humour, how painful pasts are dealt with personally and publicly, asking questions about the roles of memorialisation, memory, erasure, transformation, grief and healing
Priscilla Morris
Every image is charged with meaning; every word bears the weight of history. Hallucinatory, haunting . . . Lara Haworth is an important new voice in European literature
Clare Pollard
A gem of genuine absurdism, and one that moves so unpredictably along its own structure, touching on – banging on, and knocking down – the fundamentals of buildings and trauma, family and love, reason and history, in a stunning, witty kick of literary brilliance
Holly Pester
Beneath the whimsy lurk serious issues about statues, official histories and which parts of our past we seek to paper over
Surreal, quirky, playful and serious . . . This slip of a book takes us to contemporary Belgrade and explores, with imagination and dark humour, how painful pasts are dealt with personally and publicly, asking questions about the roles of memorialisation, memory, erasure, transformation, grief and healing
Priscilla Morris
Every image is charged with meaning; every word bears the weight of history. Hallucinatory, haunting . . . Lara Haworth is an important new voice in European literature
Clare Pollard
A gem of genuine absurdism, and one that moves so unpredictably along its own structure, touching on – banging on, and knocking down – the fundamentals of buildings and trauma, family and love, reason and history, in a stunning, witty kick of literary brilliance
Holly Pester
Lara Haworth
View profileLara Haworth is a writer, filmmaker and a political researcher, specialising in the UK’s move to become carbon zero by 2050. Having turned an extract from Monumenta into a short story, she won a Bridport prize for it in October 2022. In the same year she won a prize for her poem ‘The Thames Barrier’ in the Café Writers Poetry Competition, wrote and narrated a podcast, The Swimming Pool, for NTS radio and was commissioned to write a long autofiction feature, Mistakes are Pure Colour, for Extra Extra Magazine. Her writing workshop, Letters That Will Never Be Sent, was featured in a BBC World Service documentary. Her film, All the People I Hurt With My Wedding, won the LGBT prize at the Athens International Monthly Film Festival, and her latest film, Grief is a Hungry Ghost, has premiered at festivals including Japan International, New York Tri-State and Munich New Wave. Monumenta is her first novel.
larahaworth.com | @larahaworth | @lara_haworth
Lara Haworth
View profileLara 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 shortlisted for a Nero Prize.
larahaworth.com | @larahaworth | @lara_haworth
Lara Haworth
View profileLara 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 shortlisted for a Nero Prize.
larahaworth.com | @larahaworth | @lara_haworth
Lara Haworth
View profileLara 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 shortlisted for a Nero Prize.
larahaworth.com | @larahaworth | @lara_haworth
