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
发表于2024-11-22
My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 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.
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。
評分在LA機場隨便挑的 很快就讀完瞭 頭一次嘗試這種 黑色喜劇...
評分【Booker2019】A real page turner...作者把故事分劃成很多小章節,提煉一個關鍵字,其中以FATHER為題的章節進行創傷性迴憶。(我覺得這種現時迴憶的寫法可能是本書入選的最重要原因…)我一直存疑的一點是,作者把幾個主要人物都描繪得相當生動,特彆是Ayoola的多重個性,控製欲、自我陶醉、脆弱良善、虛僞自知以及深刻的洞察和不以為然,但作為敘述者的“我”,Korede,其實相當模棱兩可,做瞭很多典型的事情,但反映齣來的是相當模闆化的形象。姐妹倆的關係同樣很典型,隻不過故事中因為血案更為極端。當然作者也扯進去很多傢暴、女權、政治等等大主題,但筆法還是太稚嫩,痕跡太明顯。就拿迴憶過往來講,顯然是為瞭解釋殺人動機,可粗糙淡漠得近乎“無用”。(need enlightments
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評分故事設定挺不錯,從連環殺人凶手姐姐的角度敘述,懸念製造的很精彩,是能夠吸引你迅速讀完的一本小說。細節方麵有很多地方經不起推敲,當作娛樂小說看看就好。尼日利亞的腐敗現象早有耳聞,從書裏提到的賄賂交警的片段可見一斑。另外,文筆很差。查瞭一下,作者88年的,鼓勵一下四星吧。
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My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024