Monumenta - Lara Haworth,Monumenta - Lara Haworth - kniha z kategorie Spoločenská beletria

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A 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