Ponti
Teo, Sharlene2019
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2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, 16-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, 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. 17 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 70s 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.
Main title:
Ponti / Sharlene Teo.
Author:
Teo, Sharlene, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
291 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781509855339 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2793371