Name: The Chosen Ones: A Novel
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Author: Sem-Sandberg, Steve ; Paterson, Anna
ISBN: 9781250132260

Type

Physical Book

Author

Steve Sem-Sandberg

Translated by

Anna Paterson

Publisher

Picador

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

559

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.0 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9781250132260

Synopsis "The Chosen Ones: A Novel "

An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.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 during WWII, the clinic's 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, award-winning novelist Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival in this profoundly moving and dramatic novel that bears witness to oppression and injustice during an intolerable period of Austria's past.

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