The Chosen Ones
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Paterson, Anna (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-250-13226-0
- EAN: 9781250132260
- Produktnummer: 20555107
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.8 cm 635 g
- Gewicht: 635
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Steve Sem-Sandberg; Translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson
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