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The sisters brothers

Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living?and whom he does it for.With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters?losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life?and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

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  • "DeWitt P., Die Sisters Brothers"
  • "The Sister brothers"@it

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  • "Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living?and whom he does it for.With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters?losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life?and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love."@en
  • "Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road to Warm's gold claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does - and for whom he does it."
  • "Ein tragikomischer Roman über zwei Auftragsmörder und ihre blutige, bizarre Reise durch Amerikas Westen im Jahre 1851 Hermann Kermit Warm wird sterben. Sein Tod wurde von dem geheimnisvollen und mächtigen "Kommodore" befohlen, und die Brüder Charlie und Eli Sisters werden den Auftrag ausführen. Die beiden machen sich auf den Weg von Oregon nach Kalifornien, wo sie Warm aufspüren sollen. Ihre Reise durch den vom Goldrausch geprägten amerikanischen Westen wird allerdings immer wieder von bizarren und blutigen Begegnungen unterbrochen. Zugleich zeigt sich, wie verschieden die beiden Brüder sind: Charlie ein eiskalter, skrupelloser Killer - Eli ein Grübler, der sich mit geradezu existenziellen Fragen beschäftigt. Er beginnt an seinem Beruf zu zweifeln - und an seinem Partner. Doch als die beiden schliesslich in Kalifornien eintreffen, nehmen die Ereignisse eine höchst unerwartete Wendung ... Patrick deWitt wurde 1975 auf Vancouver Island in Kanada geboren. Er lebte unter anderem in Kalifornien, Washington und Oregon. Nach 'Ablutions: Notes for a Novel' ist 'Die Sisters Brothers' ist sein zweiter Roman. Er war für den Man Booker Prize sowie den Giller Prize nominiert, wurde mit dem Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize ausgezeichnet und sowohl von Publishers Weekly als auch der Washington Post zu den besten Romanen des Jahres gezählt. Patrick deWitt lebt heute mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn in Portland, Oregon."
  • "Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother's penchant for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. On the road to Warm's gold-mining claim outside San Francisco -- and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse -- Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do. 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."@en
  • "When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers."@en
  • "Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for."
  • "Perched on the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse, Eli Sisters struggles to make sense of his life while travelling to a hit on Hermann Kermit Warm at his gold-mining claim near San Francisco."

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  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Kanadské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Canadian fiction (English)"

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  • "Arrivano i Sister"
  • "Arrivano i Sister"@it
  • "Tao jin sha shou"
  • "The sisters brothers"
  • "The sisters brothers"@en
  • "Bratři Sesterové"
  • "Barādarān-i Sı̄stirz"
  • "De gebroeders Sisters"
  • "Les fraeres Sisters"
  • "Die sisters brothers"
  • "The Sisters Brothers"@en
  • "The Sisters Brothers"
  • "Les frères Sisters : roman"
  • "The Sisters brothers"@en
  • "The Sisters brothers"
  • "Tao jin sha shou / The sisters brothers / Patrick deWitt"
  • "De gebroeders sisters"
  • "Les frères Sisters"
  • "Bracia Sisters"@pl
  • "Bracia Sisters"
  • "Los hermanos Sisters"@es
  • "Los hermanos Sisters"
  • "Brødrene sisters"
  • "The sisters brothers : book club in a bag"@en
  • "淘金殺手"
  • "Brødrene Sisters"@da
  • "The Sisters brothers : [a novel]"@en
  • "淘金殺手 / The sisters brothers / Patrick deWitt"
  • "Die Sisters Brothers Roman"

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