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2025-01-22
My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 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.
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。
評分很奇怪的或者說不一般的閱讀/聆聽體驗。
評分Wicked funny
評分短小精乾的結構和Ayoola的奇葩是最大的吸睛點。本來可以打五星,但結局姐姐的選擇太不閤我三觀瞭,扣一星。比起以前看那本《The kind worth killing》,同樣是Serial killer,那裏麵的女主Lily殺的人我都覺得該求背時,我可以拋開司法正義去喜歡她,但這本,Ayoola完全就是特麼個反社會人格,不禁讓我想起汪海橙,都是那麼manipulative,這種人有什麼好包庇的?就該精神病院住穿呀。雖然被她弄死的男的都是看上她的漂亮和她在一起是有點LOW,但是LOW不至於死吧?!醜姐姐一直在妹妹陰影下長大,還每次幫她處理屍體,最後搶瞭她暗戀對象她都能睜眼說瞎話幫她妹汙衊男的害她妹,想要體現姐姐有多偉大和姐妹情有多深嗎?有毒。所以這種看似黑色的結局,總覺得沒黑到點子上,不暢快。
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My Sister, the Serial Killer pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025