PONTI
Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B95385
English Summary/英文概要： “I am Miss Frankenstein, I am the bottom of the bell curve.”
So declares our misfit narrator, Szu, at the beginning
of this richly atmospheric and endlessly surprising tale
of unbelonging and isolation in modern 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 séances
with her sister in a rusty house where “everything is
yellowing; every wall, every tile, every window.” When
Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an unlikely
encounter develops into a fraught friendship,
which, seventeen years later, in the year 2020, will
haunt Circe’s conscience as she struggles to move on
from a painful divorce.
With remarkable emotional acuity, dark comedy, and
in vivid prose, Sharlene Teo’s Ponti traces the suffocating
tangle of four female lives. And on the gaping
loneliness of teenagehood; the surrealness of the
modern city, and the strangeness of living with, and
loving, other people, she is truly masterful.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 黛博拉•罗杰斯奖得主。
“我是弗兰肯斯坦小姐，我是贝尔曲线的底部。”
因此，我们的不适应环境的叙述者苏的故事就从这个丰富的环境和令人惊讶的现代新加坡开始。
因为没有朋友，没有父亲，16岁的苏一直活在她母亲的阴影下。她曾经是一名漂亮的演员，现在她却和她的妹妹住在一个破旧的房子里，和她的妹妹一起表演，“一切都变的黯淡了；每面墙，每块瓷砖，每扇窗户又脏又旧。当苏遇到了这个有特权、说话尖刻的人，一场不太可能的邂逅演变成了一段令人担忧的友谊，17年后的2020年，当她挣扎着从痛苦的离婚阴霾中走出来的时候，这将会困扰着瑟茜的良心。
凭借非凡的情感敏锐度，黑色喜剧，以及生动的散文，夏琳娜•泰奥的庞蒂描绘了令人窒息的四名女性的生活：青少年的深深孤独；现代城市的超现实，以及与人相处的陌生感，以及对他人的爱。她真的很有主见。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：非凡的。夏琳娜•泰奥有着出色的描写能力和人类的热情，他召唤出了现代性的黑暗潮流——环境退化，闪耀的现代城市令人窒息的魅力，以及它的大量的产品和腐败的语言。与此相反，她的角色闪耀着生命和幽默的光芒，并细致地观察到了绝望。(伊恩•麦克尤恩)
WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL DEBORAH ROGERS PRIZE
Remarkable . . . With brilliant descriptive power and human warmth, Sharlene 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 (Ian McEwan)
About the Author/作者介绍： 夏琳娜•泰奥是一位驻英国的新加坡作家。她是黛博拉•罗杰斯作家奖的获得者。她的作品出现在《时尚先生》、《岩浆诗歌》和《美丽的思想评论》等刊物上。2012年，她获得布克奖基金会奖学金，在东安格利亚大学攻读散文文学硕士学位。她是2013年黄志光创意写作奖学金获得者，2014年。
Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean writer based in the
UK. She is the winner of the inaugural Deborah
Rogers Writers’ Award. Her writing has appeared in
publications such as Esquire, Magma Poetry and Eunoia
Review. In 2012, she was awarded the Booker Prize
Foundation Scholarship to undertake an MA in Prose
Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She is the recipient
of the 2013 David T.K Wong Creative Writing
Fellowship, the 2014
Format:电子手稿
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：US: Simon & Schuster (Ira Silverberg; pre-empt); UK: Picador (Sophie Jonathan; auction); Brazil: Intrinseca (Lucas Telles); France: Buchet Chastel (Juliet Ponce; auction); Germany: Aufbau (Tom Mueller; auction); Holland: De Bezige Bij (Chris Kooi & Peter van Der Zwaag; pre-empt).
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