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
发表于2025-05-20
My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
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.
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.
Wicked funny
评分篇幅很短,文字很吸引人
评分有点黑色(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3.5. A very engaging, fast, dark and fun read. 如果喜欢电视剧Dexter,这类挑战读者对于道德、亲情和忠诚度的关系等看法的作品应该会让人感兴趣。让我感觉作者写得尤其好的地方是姐妹俩的关系--能让人信服她们之间这种特别的纽带联系,而且从头到尾一直在“合理”地变化,包括最后姐姐的选择都让我能相信(哪怕在这么暗黑的故事里)。这不是一本深刻的书,但确实很新颖,尤其在你厌倦了绝大多数有犯罪行为的书和影视作品里(还未必要是crime fiction类别,包括自传和纪录片,因为现实如此)受害者都是女性的时候,一个写的不是自嗨而已的女性视角犯罪小说,且在一个公平公正无望的社会里,姐妹“团结一致“的违法行为...阅读体验还是挺不一样。
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My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025