The Sisters Brothers Book Summary. Author patrick dewitt | submitted by: Though eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else.
The sisters brothers our choice for october 2011 is the sisters brothers by patrick dewitt. In them and the impressionable young narrator, joyce depicts an ireland in the yoke of a tyranny that is mental rather than political. It is 1851 in the oregon territory, and charlie and eli sisters have been ordered by the commodore to go to california and kill a man called hermann kermit warm.
The first edition of the novel was published in april 26th 2011, and was written by patrick dewitt.
Eli and charlie are in the habit of killing people, and they are. 9780062041265 summary winner, 2011 governor general's literary award for fiction winner, 2011 writers' trust of canada fiction prize. A frontier baron called the commodore sends charlie and. The siblings each face new challenges after the safety net of their father is gone.