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.
发表于2024-05-02
My Sister, the Serial Killer 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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.
这败絮其中的父亲 懦弱无用的母亲 浅薄愚蠢的男人 反社会人格的妹妹 破碎不堪的自己
评分很奇怪的或者说不一般的阅读/聆听体验。
评分短小精干的结构和Ayoola的奇葩是最大的吸睛点。本来可以打五星,但结局姐姐的选择太不合我三观了,扣一星。比起以前看那本《The kind worth killing》,同样是Serial killer,那里面的女主Lily杀的人我都觉得该求背时,我可以抛开司法正义去喜欢她,但这本,Ayoola完全就是特么个反社会人格,不禁让我想起汪海橙,都是那么manipulative,这种人有什么好包庇的?就该精神病院住穿呀。虽然被她弄死的男的都是看上她的漂亮和她在一起是有点LOW,但是LOW不至于死吧?!丑姐姐一直在妹妹阴影下长大,还每次帮她处理尸体,最后抢了她暗恋对象她都能睁眼说瞎话帮她妹污蔑男的害她妹,想要体现姐姐有多伟大和姐妹情有多深吗?有毒。所以这种看似黑色的结局,总觉得没黑到点子上,不畅快。
评分妹妹为了“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。
评分短小精干的结构和Ayoola的奇葩是最大的吸睛点。本来可以打五星,但结局姐姐的选择太不合我三观了,扣一星。比起以前看那本《The kind worth killing》,同样是Serial killer,那里面的女主Lily杀的人我都觉得该求背时,我可以抛开司法正义去喜欢她,但这本,Ayoola完全就是特么个反社会人格,不禁让我想起汪海橙,都是那么manipulative,这种人有什么好包庇的?就该精神病院住穿呀。虽然被她弄死的男的都是看上她的漂亮和她在一起是有点LOW,但是LOW不至于死吧?!丑姐姐一直在妹妹阴影下长大,还每次帮她处理尸体,最后抢了她暗恋对象她都能睁眼说瞎话帮她妹污蔑男的害她妹,想要体现姐姐有多伟大和姐妹情有多深吗?有毒。所以这种看似黑色的结局,总觉得没黑到点子上,不畅快。
My Sister, the Serial Killer 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书