The chosen ones : a novel

Sem-Sandberg, Steve 1958- (author.). Paterson, Anna (Anna Tora), 1942- (translator.).

Summary: "The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants. Through the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, Steve Sem-Sandberg, the author of the award-winning The Emperor of Lies, explores the very meaning of survival."--

Item details

ISBN: 9780374122805
ISBN: 0374122806
ISBN: 9780374711269
Physical Description: print
xii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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General Note:

"Originally published in Swedish in 2014 by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden, as De utvalda. English translation originally published in 2016 by Faber and Faber Ltd., Great Britain"--Title page verso.

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Spiegelgrund (Children's institution) Fiction
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Euthanasia Austria Vienna Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Children Austria Vienna Fiction
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Spiegelgrund (Children's institution)
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