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Freud's Sister (Paperback)
Goce Smilevski; Translated by Christina E. Kramer
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The award-winning international sensation that poses the question:
Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi
concentration camp?
"The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who
whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her
brother Sigmund."
Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted
an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with
him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister,
but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled
to the Terezin concentration camp, while their brother lives out
his last days in London.
Based on a true story, this searing novel gives haunting voice to
Freud's sister Adolfina--"the sweetest and best of my sisters"--a
gifted, sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother and never
married. A witness to her brother's genius and to the cultural and
artistic splendor of Vienna in the early twentieth century, she
aspired to a life few women of her time could attain.
From Adolfina's closeness with her brother in childhood, to her
love for a fellow student, to her time with Gustav Klimt's sister
in a Vienna psychiatric hospital, to her dream of one day living in
Venice and having a family, "Freud's Sister" imagines with
astonishing insight and deep feeling the life of a woman lost to
the shadows of history.
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