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.

用户评价

not very unpredictable, but a funny, ironic novel nevertheless

好看。章节超短，非常容易读，一页页翻下去很快就看完了。

A pageturning lightweight deadpan murder drama w/ sibling rivalry and bond, Nigerian gender politics, abusive father, love triangle, wise coma patient who was listening the whole time (Muhtar aka 'mother'). Ayoola is manipulative, self-obsessed, instagramming femme fatale, sees men as shallow cheating fools. Micro chapters, works for its length.

Wicked funny

not very unpredictable, but a funny, ironic novel nevertheless