• Ponti

  • By: Sharlene Teo
  • Narrated by: Vera Chok
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Ponti

By: Sharlene Teo
Narrated by: Vera Chok
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Publisher's summary

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, 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 '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.

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. Beautifully written by debut author Sharlene Teo, and enormously atmospheric, Ponti marks the launch of an exciting new literary voice in the vein of Zadie Smith.

©2018 Sharlene Teo (P)2018 Macmillan Digital Audio

Critic reviews

"Remarkable." (Ian McEwan)

"Narrator Vera Chok delivers an outstanding performance of this debut novel about family, friendship, and memory in Singapore...Chok's narration is upbeat and conversational. Her charming voice and accent perfectly embody the multicultural aspects of the three women: prim and proper Amisa, awkward Szu, and self-centered Circe. A unique and engrossing listen." (AudioFile Magazine)

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