Review; Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski

As I have a World Literature Project going on, I ended up reading Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski, who is from Macedonia. Today I'll post my review.

Description from Goodreads

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 Terezín 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.

My Thoughts on the Book

Freud's Sister may be a quiet book, as there's not that much action, but it's still a fascinating, moving and beautiful read. I also really enjoyed the author's writing style. That said, and even if this is historical fiction, I still wanted to smack Sigmund Freud in the back of his head quite a number of times, like when he managed to get to London and not save his sisters.