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The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform university for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically unwell children. The truth, however, was completely different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World Battle II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding simple. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants. From 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 success. An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, abundant with incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by the author's pointed sense of the absurd. Passionately serious, meticulously researched, and deeply deep, this remarkable and dramatic book bears witness to oppression and injustice, and will be offering very helpful and necessary perception into an intolerable chapter in Austria's former.
