Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri - diskuze

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of The New Yorker's 24 Essential Reads of the YearFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardLonglisted for the National Book Award for FictionOne of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie MedalOne of the BBC's 10 Best Books of the Summer | A Times (London) Best Book of the Year"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 IntimaciesAn 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,
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