The Punkhawala and the Prostitute Wesley Leon Aroozoo
Listen and read
Step into an infinite world of stories
- Read and listen as much as you want
- Over 950 000 titles
- Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
- Easy to cancel anytime
Kopi, Puffs & Dreams
- By
- With:
- Publisher
Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize
At the turn of the twentieth century, two young men from Palakkad, Puthu and Krishnan, meet aboard a ship bound for Malaya, and strike up an instant connection. Over the next two decades, they set up a restaurant in Singapore selling curry puffs and kopi, become successful, get married and start families. However, Krishnan harbours a dark secret that threatens to destroy the dreams he and Puthu have built together, a secret that only carelessness can reveal…
© 2021 by Pallavi Gopinath Aney. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2022.
© 2022 Storyside (Audiobook): 9789152198018
Release date
Audiobook: 21 February 2022
Others also enjoyed ...
- Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel Linda Rui Feng
- Kololo Hill Neema Shah
- A Living Remedy: A Memoir Nicole Chung
- Somebody Loves You Mona Arshi
- Impractical Uses of Cake Yeoh Jo-Ann
- State of Emergency Jeremy Tiang
- Three O'Clock in the Morning: A Novel Gianrico Carofiglio
- Kappa Quartet Daryl Qilin Yam
- Death of a Perm Sec Wong Souk Yee
- Now That It's Over O Thiam Chin
- Blue Sky Mansion H.Y. Yeang
- The Teller of Secrets: A Novel Bisi Adjapon
- The Eternal Audience of One Rémy Ngamije
- The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness Kyung-sook Shin
- The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories Rebecca Otowa
- Farewell, Ghosts Nadia Terranova
- Nimita's Place Akshita Nanda
- The Librarianist: A Novel Patrick deWitt
- Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories Cyril Wong
- Making a Scene Constance Wu
- My Cat Yugoslavia Pajtim Statovci
- Trust Exercise Susan Choi
- ME Tomoyuki Hoshino
- Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
- A Good True Thai Sunisa Manning
- The Earthspinner: A Novel Anuradha Roy
- What You Need From The Night Laurent Petitmangin
- Seasons of Purgatory Shahriar Mandanipour
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah’s Book Club Novel Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- Salt Lick: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Lulu Allison
- Evening Hero Marie Myung-Ok Lee
- Ogadinma: Or, Everything Will Be Alright: Or, Everything Will Be Alright Ukamaka Olisakwe
- The Orchard: A Novel David Hopen
- The Minorities Suffian Hakim
- The Secret Talker: A Novel Geling Yan
- A Lover's Discourse: A Novel Xiaolu Guo
- A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam
- Hungry Ghosts: A Novel Kevin Jared Hosein
- The Deceptions: A Novel Jill Bialosky
- Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family Tash Aw
- The Mermaid's Tale Lee Wei-Jing
- A Sheltered Woman Yiyun Li
- The Book of Mother: A Novel Violaine Huisman
- Undiscovered: A Novel Gabriela Wiener
- I Was Never the First Lady: A Novel Wendy Guerra
- Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
- Blackouts: A Novel Justin Torres
- The Last Gift of the Master Artists Ben Okri
- Banyan Moon: A Novel Thao Thai
- An Island Karen Jennings
- Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir Shoji Morimoto
- Catch the Rabbit Lana Bastašic
- Edge Case: A Novel YZ Chin
- If It Were Up to Mrs Dada Cariss Foo
- Pew Catherine Lacey
- Jigsaw Sybille Bedford
- Tomb of Sand: A Novel Geetanjali Shree
- The Thief Fuminori Nakamura
- Saha: The new novel from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Cho Nam-Joo
- Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
- Daughter in Exile: A Novel Bisi Adjapon
- An Unlasting Home: A Novel Mai Al-Nakib
- Moth: A Novel Melody Razak
- The Best American Short Stories 2023 Min Jin Lee
- Salutation Road Salma Ibrahim
- How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Safiya Sinclair
- Games and Rituals Katherine Heiny
- The Round House: A Novel Louise Erdrich
- Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World Nell Stevens
- Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel Amir Ahmadi Arian
- How I Won A Nobel Prize Julius Taranto
- Mother Tongue: A Bogotan Story Juan Fernando Hincapié
- China Dream Ma Jian
- Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li
- Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine Klara Hveberg
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
- City of Incurable Women Maud Casey
- The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
- Other Names, Other Places Ola Mustapha
- Silence is My Mother Tongue Sulaiman Addonia
- Silence is a Sense Layla AlAmmar
- Fencing with the King: A Novel Diana Abu-Jaber
- Consent Annabel Lyon
- Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories Kevin Wilson
- Crooked Plow: A Novel Itamar Vieira Junior
- The Laughter: A Novel Sonora Jha
- The Wind That Lays Waste: A Novel Selva Almada
- The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza Cyril Wong
- Disoriental Négar Djavadi
- Terrace Story: A Novel Hilary Leichter
- Homesick: A Memoir Jennifer Croft
- Pearl Siân Hughes
- Shallow Waters: A Novel Anita Kopacz
- The Amendments: A beautiful, moving story about womanhood every book club needs to read Niamh Mulvey
- The Last Immigrant Lau Siew Mei
- The Tenant Freida McFadden
3.9 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling4.7
- Shield of Sparrows Devney Perry4.5
- Quicksilver: The Fae & Alchemy Series, Book 1 Callie Hart4.4
- 弟弟不要怕 小邝5
- The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins4.7
- The Housemaid: An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist Freida McFadden4.2
- Twisted Love Ana Huang3.7
- Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros4.6
- My Weird School Special: Fright Night! Dan Gutman4.8
- From Blood and Ash (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Blood and Ash 1 Jennifer L. Armentrout4.3
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night: Crowns of Nyaxia, Book 1 Carissa Broadbent4.3
- The Ex Freida McFadden3.8
- HOW TO WIN FRIENDS & INFLUENCE PEOPLE Dale Carnegie4.3
- Never Lie Freida McFadden3.9
Features:
Over 950 000 titles
Kids Mode (child safe environment)
Download books for offline access
Cancel anytime
Most popular
Unlimited
For those who want to listen and read without limits.
3 days for free
1 account
Unlimited Access
Unlimited listening
Cancel anytime
Unlimited Bi-yearly
For those who want to listen and read without limits.
14 days for free
Save 11%
1 account
Unlimited Access
Unlimited listening
Cancel anytime
Unlimited Yearly
For those who want to listen and read without limits.
14 days for free
Save 24%
1 account
Unlimited Access
Unlimited listening
Cancel anytime
Family
For those who want to share stories with family and friends.
2-3 accounts
Unlimited Access
Unlimited listening
Cancel anytime
2 accounts
S$14.90 /monthLanguage and region
English
Singapore
