{"product_id":"freuds-sister-goce-smilevski-9780143121459","title":"Freud's Sister","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Terezín concentration camp, while their brother lives out his last days in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFreud's Sister\u003c\/i\u003e imagines with astonishing insight and deep feeling the life of a woman lost to the shadows of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Goce Smilevski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143121456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143121459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.23w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2012 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/2012 pg. 47","brand":"Goce Smilevski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965117350143,"sku":"9780143121459","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfaa3633-44a8-428d-a3c7-e1a7fac8dfbe.jpg?v=1767278546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freuds-sister-goce-smilevski-9780143121459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}