[PRE-ORDER] - The Sisters (Expected 21/10/2025)

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 shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are.

Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's The Sisters is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order—an addictively entertaining tour de force.

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Booker Prize-shortlisted authors
‘Jonas Hassen Khemiri's masterpiece, a beautiful double helix of memory and imagination . . . life overflows its pages’
- Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

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Award-winning directors and screen writers
‘Momentous . . . I don't waver an instance when I say Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the greatest Swedish lyricist of a century’
- Johan Renck, BAFTA-winning director of Chernobyl and Spaceman

‘I read it as if my own life depended on the outcome for these sisters. I laughed with them, cried with them, lived with them throughout it all. And when it ended, they stayed with me. It's astonishing that such a complex and epic story can be so easy to devour. One of those stories I wish I could read again for the first time’
- Lisa Ambjörn, writer of the Netflix hit Young Royals

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Prize-winning debut novelists
‘A moving appraisal of family, language, and the spiritual developments that accrue over a life. Jonas Hassen Khemiri ushers you through those developments with humanity and wit and illuminates complex familial intimacies with utter clarity’
- Raven Leilani, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Luster

‘The Sisters moves generation to generation, neighbour to neighbour, skin to skin, pulse to pulse. If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you’
- Tess Gunty, Waterstone Debut Prize-winning author of The Rabbit Hutch

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Prize-winning second novelists
‘A superb novel about the pangs and longings of sibling love . . . captivating and so full of life - one of those books you live inside and miss when it's over’
- Isabella Hammad, Encore Prize-winning author of Enter Ghost

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Established literary stars
‘A novel of unsurpassed tenderness . . . every character - every sentence - is startlingly, indubitably alive’
- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

‘Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the very rare combination of a deep intellectual and a true storyteller, as smart as he is entertaining’
- Fredrik Backman, million-copy-bestselling author A Man Called Ove

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Editors of international literary journals
‘An extraordinary achievement . . . this is the novel that I didn't know I was waiting for’
- Adam Dalva, editor of Words without Borders

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author)

Jonas is (to quote Johan Renck, Emmy-winning director of Chernobyl) ‘the greatest Swedish lyricist of a century’, and his previous novels have all been bestsellers and prize winners in Sweden. This is his English-language debut, and we really believe it has the potential to break him out on a global scale. He already has some huge fans, and Macmillan, who are publishing in the US, have already received some incredible quotes – all featured below and including one from Fredrick Bachman which will feature on the TPB cover.