The chosen ones
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-2017
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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 Two, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia programme 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.
Main title:
The chosen ones / Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated by Anna Paterson.
Author:
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-, authorPaterson, Anna (Anna Tora), 1942-, translator
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
xiv, 560 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.This translation originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9780571288472 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.738FICTION
Language:
EnglishSwedish
Subject:
BRN:
2444922