Second Sister
(eAudiobook)
Chan Ho-Kei's The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law, spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirl-Siu-Man-has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man was an orphan, and Nga-Yee, the librarian older sister who'd been raising her, refuses to believe there was no foul play-although nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N-a hacker and an expert in cyber-security and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat-and-mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N's neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end, it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man's death and why, and to ask-in a world where online and offline dialogue has forgotten about the real people on the other end-what is the proper punishment?
Notes
Ho-Kei, C., & Wu, N. (2020). Second Sister. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ho-Kei, Chan and Nancy, Wu. 2020. Second Sister. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ho-Kei, Chan and Nancy, Wu, Second Sister. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ho-Kei, Chan, and Nancy Wu. Second Sister. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
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