The Sisters Brothers
Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction · 2011 · WinnerScotiabank Giller Prize · 2011 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction | 2011 | Winner |
| Scotiabank Giller Prize | 2011 | Shortlist |
About This Book
In 1851 Oregon, two brothers who work as assassins for a powerful criminal named the Commodore travel to California to kill a gold prospector. A comic Western that was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Booker Prize.
About the Author
Patrick deWitt is a Canadian-American novelist born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He is best known for The Sisters Brothers (2011), a darkly comic Western novel about two hired-gun brothers travelling to California during the Gold Rush, which won the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Sisters Brothers was adapted into a 2018 film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Read more →
