- Sisters, Serial murderers, Fiction, Fiction, family life
"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. "Femi makes three, you know.
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Contemporary, intimate, classical in form and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Oyinkan Braithwaite
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Thorndike Press Large Print, ART
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- rum, Polish, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9781786495983
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First sentence
“Ayoola me convoca dizendo: – Korede, eu o matei.”
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