{"product_id":"monumenta-hardcover","title":"Monumenta - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLara Haworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'This is a party I'm glad I was invited to' EILEEN MYLES\u003cbr\u003e'Fizzing with ideas' OBSERVER \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsn't every family home a monument? The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.\u003cbr\u003eThe council will bulldoze it.\u003cbr\u003eHer home will become a monument to a massacre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLara Haworth\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMonumenta \u003c\/i\u003einto 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 Caf� Writers Poetry Competition, wrote and narrated a podcast, \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming Pool\u003c\/i\u003e, for NTS radio and was commissioned to write a long autofiction feature, \u003ci\u003eMistakes are Pure Colour\u003c\/i\u003e, for \u003ci\u003eExtra Extra \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine. Her writing workshop, \u003ci\u003eLetters That Will Never Be Sent\u003c\/i\u003e, was featured in a BBC World Service documentary. Her film, \u003ci\u003eAll the People I Hurt With My Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, won the LGBT prize at the Athens International Monthly Film Festival, and her latest film, \u003ci\u003eGrief is a Hungry Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, has premiered at festivals including Japan International, New York Tri-State and Munich New Wave. \u003ci\u003eMonumenta \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elarahaworth.com @larahaworth @lara_haworth\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266512896249,"sku":"9781805301967","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1ov-5uKe0L9781805301967.webp?v=1768851780","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/monumenta-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}