![]() ![]() Yolandi, the novel's narrator, has always lived in her sister's shadow whereas Elfrieda is a gifted, beautiful, happily marrried, and much celebrated concert pianist, Yolandi is something of a failure, with a floundering writing career and teenage children from separate fathers. The novel recounts the tumultuous relationship of the Von Riesen sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, the only children of an intellectual, free-spirited family from a conservative Mennonite community. Toews, a Canadian writer, won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for this book, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. Includes the booklet with the same title, and all housed in a black cloth slipcase. ![]() Signed by Toews on the title page, her sixth novel. ![]()
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