{"product_id":"the-sisters-1","title":"The Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's 24 Essential Reads of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC’s 10 Best Books of the Summer | A \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003e(London) Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. [\u003ci\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is] a transnational tour de force.” —Alexandra Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of this summer’s most buzzed-about novels.” —Nilanjana Roy, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Fredrik Backman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e] generates every kind of heat . . . If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you.” —Tess Gunty, National Book Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rabbit Hutch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Astonishing . . . Every character—every sentence—is startlingly, indubitably alive.” —Katie Kitamura, author of \u003ci\u003eAudition \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, 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, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIna meets her future husband when she’s dragged to a New Year’s rave 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the sisters from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. Over the course of three decades, his life intersects with the sisters, from a chance encounter in Tunis to the scene of a fighter jet crash in Stockholm. When Evelyn disappears on a trip to New York, Jonas manages to track her down—and helps her to break the curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for decades. In the process, a shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters \u003c\/i\u003eis a big, vivid family saga of the highest order—an addictively entertaining tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonas Hassen Khemiri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51851251417304,"sku":"9781250437952","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781250437952.jpg?v=1781883343","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/the-sisters-1","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}