Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist
Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers
House of Anansi Press
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About the Book
Two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, are notorious professional killers hired to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. In seeking to complete their contract they travel from Oregon to California and experience a series of unsettling and violent encounters in nineteenth-century Gold Rush America. Charlie is the ruthless brother, intent on making money and killing anyone who stands in the way; Eli is a reluctant assassin, doubting his vocation and prone to falling in love. A tribute to the classic Western, The Sisters Brothers is an inventive and darkly comic novel exploring the perversity of human motivation.
About the Author
Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975 and presently lives in Portland, Oregon. His previous novel, Ablutions, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. The Sisters Brothers is a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize and has been longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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