Second sister / Chan Ho-Kei ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802129475
- ISBN: 0802129471
- Physical Description: x, 495 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
- Publisher: New York : Black Cat, 2020.
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Subject: | Cyberbullying > Fiction. Suicide > Fiction. Hong Kong (China) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Covington Branch | CHAN H (Text) | 33126024900247 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |