The Sisters
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- Titel: The Sisters : A Novel / Jonas Hassen Khemiri
- Person(en): Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2025
- ISBN/Preis: 9780374618902 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Literature ; Electronic books
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Inhalt: A New York Times Summer Book We're Looking Forward To | Editors' Choice One of Vulture 's Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer "One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. [ The Sisters is] a transnational tour de force." —Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review "One of this summer's most buzzed-about novels." —Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times "A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage." —Fredrik Backman, The New Yorker "[ The Sisters ] 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 The Rabbit Hutch "Astonishing . . . Every character—every sentence—is startlingly, indubitably alive." —Katie Kitamura, author of Audition and Intimacies An addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist. Meet 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. Ina 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. Following 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 shock
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