Ponti

Zusatztext “With brilliant descriptive power and human warmth, Sharlene Wen-Ning Teo summons the darker currents of modernity – environmental degradation, the suffocating allure of the sparkling modern city and its cataracts of commodities and corrupted language. Against this, her characters glow with life and humour and minutely observed desperation. I read this extract longing for more.”  –Ian McEwan, author of  The Children Act  and  Atonement “This haunting debut hopscotches between decades and cultures, eschewing the usual moves of the coming-of-age story for something truer to the desperate, surreal stakes of adolescence. Sharlene Teo is a daring and genuinely original novelist.”  —Garth Greenwell, author of  What Belongs to You "A radiant, achingly beautiful novel about relationships between women." — Megan Hunter, author of  The End We Start From " Ponti  is darkly hilarious. It offers up all the anxiety, snark, sadness, and wonder of being a teenager. Teo guides us through the grunge of growing up. She asks what it means to be a monster and what it means to be beautiful. Is it possible to be both?"  —Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of  Harmless Like You “Witty, moving and richly evocative,  Ponti  paints a portrait of a country and a people negotiating the throes of modernity. It also announces a major talent — Sharlene Teo has produced not just a singular debut, but a milestone in South East Asian literature.”  —Tash Aw, author of  Five Star Billionaire “Sensuous . . . The Singapore in Sharlene Teo’s Ponti is vivid and immediate, its people complex, beautifully sketched and captivating.”  — The Times Literary Supplement "Everything about  Ponti  suggests it’s the rare, real deal and Teo’s a writer we’ll be reading for many years to come.”  —Financial Times “At once a subtle critique of the pressures of living in a modern Asian metropolis; a record of the swiftness and ruthlessness with which Southeast Asia has changed over the last three decades; a portrait of the old juxtaposed with the new (and an accompanying dialogue between nostalgia and cynicism); an exploration of the relationship between women against the backdrop of social change; and, occasionally, a love story—all wrapped up in the guise of a teenage coming-of-age novel. . . . Teo is brilliant.”  —The Guardian Informationen zum Autor Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean writer based in the UK. She is the winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for  Ponti,  her first novel. Her writing has appeared in publications such as  Esquire UK, Magma Poetry , and Eunoia Review. She is the recipient of the 2013 David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship and the 2014 Sozopol Fiction Fellowship. Klappentext "A refreshing and riveting story of female friendship set in Singapore--a surprising and powerful portrait of modern Asia" -- Leseprobe Ponti 1 SZU 2003 Today marks my sixteenth year on this hot, horrible earth. I am stuck in school, standing with my palms pressed against a green wall. I am pressing so hard that my fingers ache. I am tethered to this wall by my own shame. I am in trouble again. I keep finding myself in trouble. It takes me weeks to wade out of it. There is something dishonest about my face, even when I’m telling the truth. What can you do when you’re born with a bad face? I think that’s why most people don’t take to me. Yes, take to me, the way that ducks take to water or kids take to certain talents. The way the other girls in school seem to be best friends in seconds, in-jokes and easy laughter. Wh...

Product details

• Authors: Sharlene Teo
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.09.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781501173127
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-7312-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature