The chosen ones : a novel / Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Paterson, Anna (Anna Tora), 1942- translator.

Standardized Title:

Utvalda. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Spiegelgrund (Children's institution)--Fiction.

Spiegelgrund (Children's institution).

Children--Institutional care--Austria--Fiction.

Children.

Children--Nazi persecution--Fiction.

Euthanasia--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.

Euthanasia.

World War, 1939-1945--Children--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Children--Nazi persecution.

Children--Institutional care.

Vienna (Austria)--Fiction.

Vienna (Austria).

Austria.

Austria--Vienna.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 561 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

9780374122805

0374122806

OCLC:

918994990

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