Second sister / Chan Ho-Kei ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Ho-Kei, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Tiang, Jeremy, translator.

Standardized Title:

Wang nei ren. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Justice.

Cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying--Fiction.

Suicide--Fiction.

Suicide.

Justice--Fiction.

Hong Kong (China)--Fiction.

Hong Kong (China).

China--Hong Kong.

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 495 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic edition.

Other Title:

2nd sister

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.

Summary:

"A schoolgirl, Siu-Man, has committed suicide by leaping from her twenty-second floor window. Her older sister and guardian, Nga-Yee, refuses to believe there was no foul play. Nga-Yee contacts a hacker and cybersecurity expert-known only as N.-to investigate and what follows is a cat and mouse game through the city and its digital underground, where someone has been smearing Siu-Man's reputation. This is not the only hidden drama in the city of Hong Kong: Chan introduces us to a serial groper on mass transit; high school kids with their competing agendas and social performances; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.'s neighborhood. In the end, these threads all come together to reveal who caused Siu-Man's death and why, and to ask, in a world that has increasingly forgotten the real people on the other end of online and offline firestorms, what the proper punishment is"-- Provided by publisher.

<B>From the author of the acclaimed novel <i>The Borrowed</i>, a very timely and propulsively plotted tale of cyberbullying and revenge, about a woman on the hunt for the truth about her sister's death.</b>

ISBN:

9780802129475

0802129471

OCLC:

1125276685

Publisher Number:

99984134084