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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place
Award. Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. 'Remarkable . . . her
characters glow with life and humour' Ian McEwan 2003. Singapore.
Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow
of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium
performing seances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets
the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, they develop an intense
friendship which offers Szu an escape from her mother's alarming
solitariness, and Circe a step closer to the fascinating,
unknowable Amisa. Seventeen years later, Circe is struggling
through a divorce in fraught and ever-changing Singapore when a
project comes up at work: a remake of the cult seventies horror
film series 'Ponti', the very project that defined Amisa's
short-lived film career. Suddenly Circe is knocked off balance: by
memories of the two women she once knew, by guilt, and by a past
that threatens her conscience . . . Told from the perspectives of
all three women, Ponti by Sharlene Teo is an exquisite story of
friendship and memory spanning decades. Infused with mythology and
modernity, with the rich sticky heat of Singapore, it is at once an
astounding portrayal of the gaping loneliness of teenagehood, and a
vivid exploration of how tragedy can make monsters of us.
Shortlisted for Hearsts' Big Book Award 2018.
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Imprint: |
Picador
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2018 |
Authors: |
Sharlene Teo
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Dimensions: |
223 x 142 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
304 |
Edition: |
Main Market Ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5098-5531-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-5098-5531-9 |
Barcode: |
9781509855315 |
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