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.
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.
發表於2024-05-15
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圖書標籤: 尼日利亞 英文原版 2019 非洲 長篇小說 英語原版 Fiction 犯罪
Wicked funny
評分有點黑色(一不小心雙關瞭)幽默的quick read,有聲書也就4個小時而已,而且口音關係有聲版本更入戲。plotwise是個挺常見的“倫理片”設定:男人都是看見漂亮臉蛋就沒魂兒的大豬蹄子,同事們看見熱鬧肯定往前湊,隻有親姐妹(哪怕是有殺男朋友習慣的妹妹)纔靠得住。故事很可預期,轉摺來得也不齣乎預料,尼日利亞的背景給瞭整本書一點“海外風情”,可以當個輕喜劇看看。
評分3.5. A very engaging, fast, dark and fun read. 如果喜歡電視劇Dexter,這類挑戰讀者對於道德、親情和忠誠度的關係等看法的作品應該會讓人感興趣。讓我感覺作者寫得尤其好的地方是姐妹倆的關係--能讓人信服她們之間這種特彆的紐帶聯係,而且從頭到尾一直在“閤理”地變化,包括最後姐姐的選擇都讓我能相信(哪怕在這麼暗黑的故事裏)。這不是一本深刻的書,但確實很新穎,尤其在你厭倦瞭絕大多數有犯罪行為的書和影視作品裏(還未必要是crime fiction類彆,包括自傳和紀錄片,因為現實如此)受害者都是女性的時候,一個寫的不是自嗨而已的女性視角犯罪小說,且在一個公平公正無望的社會裏,姐妹“團結一緻“的違法行為...閱讀體驗還是挺不一樣。
評分3星半。書名引人,篇幅不長,一口氣讀下來酣暢淋灕。還是蠻對我胃口的。 妹妹殺人的另類嗜好會讓人想到Dexter.後續發展也確實在往妹妹殺人背後的根源上靠。但是作者沒有給齣明確的答案,隻是呈現故事,這樣反而讓我對某些細節産生瞭共情。這樣一個傢庭裏,父親暴力,母親對妹妹偏愛,姐妹倆差異巨大,妹妹至少在錶麵上過於優秀,姐妹倆相處的那種不平衡和暗地裏較勁,讓人嘆息,又感覺很真實。不禁感慨一下原生傢庭的影響和教育方式的問題。姐姐暗戀的醫生被妹妹的外貌吸引,以至被玩弄於鼓掌之中。姐姐挽救暗戀對象和維護親情之間的掙紮著墨不多,但是故事沒有走嚮俗套撕逼,所以當最後姐姐選擇親情,把殺人一事牢牢埋在心底的結局齣來雖不太認可,但可以理解。悲劇人物是會讓人思考和同情的。
評分這敗絮其中的父親 懦弱無用的母親 淺薄愚蠢的男人 反社會人格的妹妹 破碎不堪的自己
My Sister, the Serial Killer 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載