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2024-05-09
My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
3星半。书名引人,篇幅不长,一口气读下来酣畅淋漓。还是蛮对我胃口的。 妹妹杀人的另类嗜好会让人想到Dexter.后续发展也确实在往妹妹杀人背后的根源上靠。但是作者没有给出明确的答案,只是呈现故事,这样反而让我对某些细节产生了共情。这样一个家庭里,父亲暴力,母亲对妹妹偏爱,姐妹俩差异巨大,妹妹至少在表面上过于优秀,姐妹俩相处的那种不平衡和暗地里较劲,让人叹息,又感觉很真实。不禁感慨一下原生家庭的影响和教育方式的问题。姐姐暗恋的医生被妹妹的外貌吸引,以至被玩弄于鼓掌之中。姐姐挽救暗恋对象和维护亲情之间的挣扎着墨不多,但是故事没有走向俗套撕逼,所以当最后姐姐选择亲情,把杀人一事牢牢埋在心底的结局出来虽不太认可,但可以理解。悲剧人物是会让人思考和同情的。
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not very unpredictable, but a funny, ironic novel nevertheless
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。
评分很奇怪的或者说不一般的阅读/聆听体验。
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My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024