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2025-01-30
My Sister, the Serial Killer 2025 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.
有点黑色(一不小心双关了)幽默的quick read,有声书也就4个小时而已,而且口音关系有声版本更入戏。plotwise是个挺常见的“伦理片”设定:男人都是看见漂亮脸蛋就没魂儿的大猪蹄子,同事们看见热闹肯定往前凑,只有亲姐妹(哪怕是有杀男朋友习惯的妹妹)才靠得住。故事很可预期,转折来得也不出乎预料,尼日利亚的背景给了整本书一点“海外风情”,可以当个轻喜剧看看。
评分故事设定挺不错,从连环杀人凶手姐姐的角度叙述,悬念制造的很精彩,是能够吸引你迅速读完的一本小说。细节方面有很多地方经不起推敲,当作娱乐小说看看就好。尼日利亚的腐败现象早有耳闻,从书里提到的贿赂交警的片段可见一斑。另外,文笔很差。查了一下,作者88年的,鼓励一下四星吧。
评分【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
评分好看。章节超短,非常容易读,一页页翻下去很快就看完了。
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 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书