The Sisters Brothers

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.

Set in 1851 during the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic Western follows assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. On a mission from their crime boss “the Commodore” to kill a prospector, they confront violence, loyalty, and self-reflection in their chaotic journey from Oregon to San Francisco

Patrick deWitt, acclaimed author of Ablutions, doffs his hat to the classic Western, and then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West — and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.