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Lara Haworth - Monumenta, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Monumenta

Av Lara Haworth

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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
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-07-04
  • Mått: 135 x 204 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 228 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 144
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781805301967
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Nero Book Award Debut Fiction Prize 2024 (UK)
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Lara 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

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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

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