TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sem-Sandberg,Steve
AU  - Paterson,Anna
TI  - The chosen ones
SN  - 9780374122805
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Spiegelgrund (Children's institution)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Austria
KW  - Nazi persecution
KW  - Euthanasia
KW  - Vienna
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Vienna (Austria)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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