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By (author) Khemiri Jonas Hassen; Read by Varadian, Aleksander
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An astonishing family drama of the highest order, addictively entertaining and utterly unforgettable
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It”s been a while since we were stunned by an ambitious family saga”
The Times
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
”One of the best novels I”ve ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage”
New Yorker
”One gawps at its breadth and ambition”
New York Times
”If you are looking for one to put aside for long winter nights, this is it”
The Gloss
MEET THE MIKKOLA SISTERS: INA, EVELYN, AND ANASTASIA.
Their mother is a Tunisian saleswoman, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, quick to anger.
Ina meets her future husband when she”s dragged to a New Year”s party by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress. And Anastasia runs off to Tunisia, where she falls in love with a woman who, years later, will transform her life.
Following them from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. His life intersects with the sisters across decades and continents, from Stockholm to Tunis and New York. When Evelyn disappears, it”s Jonas who tracks her down – and helps her to break a curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for years. But in the process, a shocking revelation changes everything.
Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, The Sisters is avivid, epic family saga of the highest order – an addictively entertaining tour de force.
”One of this summer”s most buzzed-about novels”
Financial Times
”Superb . . . one of those books you live inside and miss when it”s over”
Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost
”A moving appraisal of family, language, and the spiritual developments that accrue over a life”
Raven Leilani, author of Luster
”A thoroughly fascinating story about sibling rivalry, loyalty, and love”
Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove
”If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you”
Tess Gunty, author of the Rabbit Hutch
”Astonishing . . . every character – every sentence – is startlingly, indubitably alive”
Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
”His masterpiece . . . life overflows its pages”
Madeleine Thien, author of
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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A quilt in the winter, a fireplace of embers, a singing kettle, a blazing forest, a steaming bath, a controlled burn – what you hold in your hands generates every kind of heat. There is violence, and some of it burns, but its most consistent and miraculous energy – the energy radiating beneath every sentence of every page – is a kind of geothermal tenderness. Jonas Hassen Khemiri”s The Sisters moves generation to generation, neighbour to neighbour, skin to skin, pulse to pulse.
If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you
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I try to avoid recommending too many novels whose length could rival a dictionary”s. But
I”ve been thinking about The Sisters ever since I finished it, and now that it”s out I hope you linger over it, too.
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