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Author: Haworth, Lara

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 July 2024 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 144 pages
205 x 137 x 17 | 230g

A 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 cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror.

Olga can’t allow them to unearth the secrets held in this space, not until she reunites with her children for a final dinner. Her aspirational, distant daughter, Hilde, and her secretly queer son, Danilo, both reluctantly agree to fly back to Belgrade.

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.