The chosen ones
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-2015
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In the middle of the 20th century Vienna began the transformation from post-imperial oddity to a new sub-imperial status as a satellite of Berlin under Nazi control. Am Spiegelgrund clinic, an institution in a garden suburb of the city, was apparently well-intentioned: both a reform school for lost, wayward boys and girls, and a clinic for chronically ill or malformed children. However, its doctors, nurses and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief, as instructed by the Nazi regime's euthanasia programme, devised to eliminate 'physically, mentally and racially inferior stock'. Through the eyes of an inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, this novel explores an intolerable chapter in Austria's past.
Main title:
The chosen ones / Steve Sem-Sandberg.
Author:
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
Collation:
592 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9780571288465 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.738GAF
LC class:
PT9876.29.E47
Language:
EnglishSwedish
Subject:
BRN:
1368895
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