Lit in Translation

The Sisters

Systrarna

Jonas Hassen Khemiri (born 1978)

Translated by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

English editions

In English

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Ina, Evelyn and Anastasia arrive in Jonas's neighbourhood and everything shifts. Born in Sweden, they nevertheless talk to each other in English; one shines at basketball, one spins irresistible tales, one carries a butterfly knife for men who annoy her. Jonas gradually realises they are linked to his own family and to his father's earlier life. For three decades their paths cross, at parties and during crises, in love and in loss, while all of them suspect they are cursed to lose whatever they love, a curse said to stem from another land and another era. Ranging across continents, the novel is about being a stranger, about flight and time, and about dreams meeting reality.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
722 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
Sweden
First published
2023 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
Author's age
45 when first published
ISBN

9789100800765 (original)

9780374618896 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781399753593 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)

9781399753630 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)