Ponti

b>'Remarkable/b>b>'/b>b> Ian McEwan/b>b>Shortlisted for Hearsts' Big Book Award 2018./b>Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an intense friendship. For Szu it offers an escape from Amisa, her beautiful, cruel mother - once an actress, and now the silent occupant of a rusty house. But for Circe, their friendship does the opposite, bringing her one step closer to the fascinating, unknowable Amisa.Seventeen years later, Circe finds herself adrift and alone. And then a project comes up at work, a remake of the cult seventies horror film series 'Ponti', the same series 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 lost friendship that threatens her conscience . . .b>Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2019./b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction, with a Sense of Place Award./b>

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Remarkable . . . her characters glow with life and humour and minutely observed desperation Ian McEwan

Product details

• Authors: Sharlen Teo, Sharlene Teo
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.04.2019
• EAN: 9781509855339
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5533-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Series: 191 POCHE; 191 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Singapore, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1970 to c 1979, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit