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The Chosen Ones
The Chosen Ones: A Novel | Steve Sem-Sandberg
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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 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. An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by the author's sharp sense of the absurd. Passionately serious, meticulously researched, and deeply profound, this extraordinary and dramatic novel bears witness to oppression and injustice, and offers invaluable and necessary insight into an intolerable chapter in Austrias past.
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MrBook
The Chosen Ones: A Novel | Steve Sem-Sandberg
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#TBRtemptation post 8! The Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Austria was not the reform school for wayward children it claimed to be--after German annexation, it conducted a euthanasia program of its inhabitants. Told through the child's eyes of Adrian Ziegler and nurse Anna Katschenka. A meticulously researched look into a dark chapter of Austrian history. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

BookBabe 😱 7y
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candc320
The Chosen Ones: A Novel | Steve Sem-Sandberg
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One of my favorite things about the wonderful Bookish community I've found online is making new friends and sharing book recommendations! One such friend, @Karashamy , sent me this lovely book simply because she's kind and thought I would enjoy it as she did. How great is that?! Thank you so much, Kara!

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MrBook
The Chosen Ones: A Novel | Steve Sem-Sandberg
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#TBRtemptation post! A very highly praised recent release, meticulously researched, and set in WWII Vienna. The Am Spiegelgrund clinic is for wayward boys & girls and chronically ill children. When the Nazis take over, it turns into a monstrous euthanasia laboratory. Told through the eyes of child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, & nurse Anna Katschenka, this thick literary work will offer deep insight into Austria's dark moment.#blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

LeahBergen Want! 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Stacked. Sounds like a terrifying heartbreaker. 7y
Suet624 Um...no thank you. 7y
monkeygirlsmama Sounds like one I might read one of these days. 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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Well-ReadNeck
The Chosen Ones: A Novel | Steve Sem-Sandberg
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Pics from #getindie store visits during our most recent trip to NYC. The Strand, McNalley-Jackson and Book Culture. #somethingforsept #SeptemberBookChallenge

RealLifeReading Ooh envious 8y
kristina_with_a_k I'm a bad biblionyer. I've only been to Strand. 😔 8y
Em890 I love all three of those! I'm a particular fan of the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson 8y
katedensen That's my favorite @bookculture 😊 8y
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