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Second Sister audiobook
- By: Chan Ho-Kei
- Narrator: Nancy Wu
- Category: Fiction, General, Thrillers
- Length: 17 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Second Sister Audiobook Summary
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?
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Second Sister Audiobook Narrator
Nancy Wu is the narrator of Second Sister audiobook that was written by Chan Ho-Kei
Nancy Wu has done voice-over animation and narrated audiobooks since 2004. A New York theater, TV, and film actor, she has won multiple Library Journal and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and recorded in studios all over the world-from Italy to Switzerland to Thailand. Narrating across genres, she is known for varied character voices and bringing stories vividly to life. Born and raised in West Virginia, she now makes her home in Boulder, Colorado, as an avid yoga practitioner and rock climber. Her television/film credits include the Law & Order franchise, All My Children, the Oscar-nominated film Frozen River, and the Nickelodeon series Three Delivery. She studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City and holds a master’s degree in human rights.
About the Author(s) of Second Sister
Chan Ho-Kei is the author of Second Sister
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Second Sister Full Details
| Narrator | Nancy Wu |
| Length | 17 hours 54 minutes |
| Author | Chan Ho-Kei |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 19, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094100685 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Second Sister is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094100685.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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