Freud's Sister

**WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE**

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 he doesn't list 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 who never married. From her 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 the life of a woman lost to the shadows of history with astonishing insight and deep feeling.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

GOCE SMILEVSKI was born in 1975 in Skopje, Macedonia. he works at the Institute for Literature at Methodius University in Skopje, where he lives.

CHRISTINA E. KRAMER is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

"A young heir to Gunter Grass and Jose Saramago, Smilevski might be the newest of a rare thing--a living European novelist with a message for the future of his continent." -The Jewish Daily Forward

"Original and enthralling." - Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy)

"Strong, multi-layered, obsessive." -La Repubblica (Italy)