{"product_id":"second-sister","title":"Second Sister: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eThe Borrowed\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChan Ho-Kei’s \u003ci\u003eThe Borrowed\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSecond Sister\u003c\/i\u003e, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eA schoolgirl—Siu-Man—has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who’s been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play—nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N.—a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46236428599506,"sku":"9780802129475","price":32.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46236428632274,"sku":"cf537f13-2ea9-3f7d-9d26-c1118f6b9134","price":14.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1f1036f3-c11b-4b0f-a233-5d201d86cb9c.jpg?v=1763412906","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/second-sister","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}