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The award-winning international feeling that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the fatality of his sister in a Nazi attentiveness camp? The boy in her recollections who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who offers her the blade, is her brother Sigmund. Vienna, 1938: Along with the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an leave visa and permitted to list the brands of people to consider with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, however, not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín attentiveness camp, while their brother lives out his previous days and nights in London. Predicated on a true history, this searing book gives haunting words to Freud's sister Adolfina - "the sweetest and best of my sisters" - a gifted, delicate woman who was spurned by her mother and never hitched. A see to her brother's genius and the ethnical and artistic splendor of Vienna in the early 20th hundred years, 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 scholar, to her time with Gustav Klimt's sister in a Vienna psychiatric medical center, 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 span of a female lost to the shadows of record.
