{"product_id":"the-sisters-9781250437952b","title":"The Sisters","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe New Yorker’s\u003c\/span\u003e 24 Essential Reads of the Year\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePublishers Weekly’s\u003c\/span\u003e Ten Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal\u003cbr\u003eOne of the BBC’s 10 Best Books of the Summer | A Times (London) Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/span\u003e is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order—an addictively entertaining tour de force.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. [\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/span\u003e is] a transnational tour de force.” —Alexandra Jacobs, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“One of this summer’s most buzzed-about novels.” —Nilanjana Roy, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage.” —Fredrik Backman, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821271060560,"sku":"9781250437952B","price":11.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250437952-l.jpg?v=1785883017","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-sisters-9781250437952b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}