Ponti
Nominiert: Big Book Awards: Women Writers Award 2018, Nominiert: Edward Stanford Fiction, with a Sense of Place Award 2019, Nominiert: Jhalak Prize 2019
(Sprache: Englisch)
Set in Singapore, and spanning fifty years, Ponti is the story of three women: sixteen-year-old Szu; her monstrous and beautiful mother, Amisa; and Circe, Szu's unlikely friend. Winner of the Deborah Rogers Writers' Award, this is a novel about love and...
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Set in Singapore, and spanning fifty years, Ponti is the story of three women: sixteen-year-old Szu; her monstrous and beautiful mother, Amisa; and Circe, Szu's unlikely friend. Winner of the Deborah Rogers Writers' Award, this is a novel about love and friendship, and about a guilt spanning decades.
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'Remarkable' - 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 séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an unlikely encounter develops into an intense friendship and offers Szu a means of escape from her mother's alarming solitariness.
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 is about friendship and memory, about the things we do when we're on the cusp of adulthood that haunt us years later. Beautifullywritten by debut author Sharlene Teo, and enormously atmospheric, Ponti marks the launch of an exciting new literary voice in the vein of Zadie Smith.
Autoren-Porträt von Sharlene Teo
Teo, SharleneSharlene Teo was born in Singapore in 1987. She has an LLB in Law from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship and the David TK Wong Creative Writing award. She holds fellowships from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the University of Iowa International Writing Program. In 2016, she won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer's Award for Ponti, her first novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sharlene Teo
- Altersempfehlung: 18 - 99 Jahre
- 2018, Air Iri OME., 304 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1509855327
- ISBN-13: 9781509855322
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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