My Sister, the Serial Killer

OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo, a Nigerian publishing house, and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

出版者:Doubleday Books

作者:Oyinkan Braithwaite

页数:240

出版时间:2018-11-20

价格:0

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780385544238

图书标签:尼日利亚英文原版2019非洲长篇小说英语原版Fiction犯罪

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.

A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works, is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realize they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it.

Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening.

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【Booker2019】A real page turner...作者把故事分划成很多小章节，提炼一个关键字，其中以FATHER为题的章节进行创伤性回忆。（我觉得这种现时回忆的写法可能是本书入选的最重要原因…）我一直存疑的一点是，作者把几个主要人物都描绘得相当生动，特别是Ayoola的多重个性，控制欲、自我陶醉、脆弱良善、虚伪自知以及深刻的洞察和不以为然，但作为叙述者的“我”，Korede，其实相当模棱两可，做了很多典型的事情，但反映出来的是相当模板化的形象。姐妹俩的关系同样很典型，只不过故事中因为血案更为极端。当然作者也扯进去很多家暴、女权、政治等等大主题，但笔法还是太稚嫩，痕迹太明显。就拿回忆过往来讲，显然是为了解释杀人动机，可粗糙淡漠得近乎“无用”。(need enlightments

很奇怪的或者说不一般的阅读/聆听体验。

在LA机场随便挑的 很快就读完了 头一次尝试这种 黑色喜剧...

妹妹为了“自卫”接连杀死男友这条主线足够吊人胃口，姐姐帮忙清理现场、抛尸后在不安中回忆起父亲的故事算是一股暗线，明暗对比之下道出了妹妹杀人成瘾背后的根源，也有点批判尼日利亚父权文化的意思。书中最大的亮点是姐妹之间爱恨交织的竞争、共生关系，但是作者对两人形象、性格的塑造显得粗糙又刻板，姐姐在最后几章的突然转变也稍显刻意。全书倒不像简介中看起来那么阴郁惊悚，反而透着些幽默和狡黠，只是爆米花味还是浓了一点。