Monumenta
Haworth, Lara2024
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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.
Main title:
Monumenta / Lara Haworth.
Author:
Haworth, Lara, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024.
Collation:
144 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781805301967 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6108.A9
Local class:
FTF
Language:
English
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BRN:
3912983
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