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.
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Lara Haworth was born in Bruxelles and raised in South London. A recipient of a Bridport Prize and a Café Writers Award in 2022, her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Extra Extra, Field, ACME and Feels. Her first film, All the People I Hurt with My Wedding, won best LGBT film at the Athens International Film Festival and her second, Grief is a Hungry Ghost, has premiered at festivals including Japan International, New York Tri-State and Munich New Wave. Her debut novel, Monumenta, was shortlisted for a Nero Prize.
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