The Sisters

<p><b>Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction</b> <b>One of <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>'s 100 Best Books of 2025</b> <b> Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for… Lue lisää <p><b>Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction</b>
<b>One of <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>'s 100 Best Books of 2025</b>
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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Named a most anticipated book of summer by <i>Vulture </i> <i>The Boston Globe</i></b>
<b>One of the BBC's 10 Best Books of the Summer A <i>Times </i>(London) Best Book of the Year</b> <p/><b>"One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. <i>The Sisters</i> is] a transnational tour de force. " --Alexandra Jacobs, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/></b><b>"One of this summer's most buzzed-about novels. " --Nilanjana Roy, <i>Financial Times</i></b> <p/><b>"A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage. " </b><b>--Fredrik Backman, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><b> <p/>" <i>The Sisters</i>] 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 <i>The Rabbit Hutch</i></b> <p/><b>"Astonishing . . . Every character--every sentence--is startlingly, indubitably alive. " --Katie Kitamura, author of <i>Audition </i>and <i>Intimacies</i></b> <p/><b>An addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist. <p/></b>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. <p/>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. <p/>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 shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are. <p/>Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's <i>The Sisters </i>is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order--an addictively entertaining tour de force. </p>