Ponti, Sharlene Teo
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Ponti, Sharlene Teo
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Ponti
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Sharlene Teo
Summary
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, 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 everchanging 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 shortlived 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
Target audience
adult
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