The award-winning author of a new book has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how it is the voices and hearing the chatter of his characters that inspires him to write. Swedish-Tunisian writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s new book “The Sisters” in English or “Les Sœurs” in French follows the lives of three sisters and a curse that weighs on them. In the book they spend 35 years trying to break the curse “Everything you love, you will lose”. He spoke to us in Perspective.
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Monday, August 11
Author Jonas Hassen Khemiri on 'The Sisters', his epic saga of sibling rivalry
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