The chosen ones /
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-
The chosen ones / Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson. - First American edition. - xii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
A novel. "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.
"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."--
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2015042554
Spiegelgrund (Children's institution)--Fiction.
Children--Institutional care--Austria--Fiction.
Children--Nazi persecution--Fiction.
Euthanasia--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.
Vienna (Austria)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
The chosen ones / Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson. - First American edition. - xii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
A novel. "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.
"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."--
9780374122805 0374122806
2015042554
Spiegelgrund (Children's institution)--Fiction.
Children--Institutional care--Austria--Fiction.
Children--Nazi persecution--Fiction.
Euthanasia--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.
Vienna (Austria)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.