具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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.
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妹妹為瞭“自衛”接連殺死男友這條主綫足夠吊人胃口，姐姐幫忙清理現場、拋屍後在不安中迴憶起父親的故事算是一股暗綫，明暗對比之下道齣瞭妹妹殺人成癮背後的根源，也有點批判尼日利亞父權文化的意思。書中最大的亮點是姐妹之間愛恨交織的競爭、共生關係，但是作者對兩人形象、性格的塑造顯得粗糙又刻闆，姐姐在最後幾章的突然轉變也稍顯刻意。全書倒不像簡介中看起來那麼陰鬱驚悚，反而透著些幽默和狡黠，隻是爆米花味還是濃瞭一點。
评分有點失望????…是因為期望太高瞭嗎
评分3.5 開篇很吸引人一下子就讀進去瞭，中段反而有點疲，還好結局又扭迴來瞭，沒落進俗套 / Tade實在太蠢瞭，A對他的評價就很準
评分姐妹情深 一起腹黑瘋到底。作者文筆很幽默，內涵非洲女性深層次的各種矛盾。
评分A pageturning lightweight deadpan murder drama w/ sibling rivalry and bond, Nigerian gender politics, abusive father, love triangle, wise coma patient who was listening the whole time (Muhtar aka 'mother'). Ayoola is manipulative, self-obsessed, instagramming femme fatale, sees men as shallow cheating fools. Micro chapters, works for its length.
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