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The Chosen Ones
De utvalda
Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 1958)
Translated by Anna Paterson
English editions
In EnglishThe Chosen Ones
Picador · United States · 8 August 2017 · Paperback · 576 pages
The Chosen Ones
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · August 2016 · Hardcover · 576 pages
The Chosen Ones
Faber & Faber · United Kingdom · 2016 · 560 pages
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Inside Vienna's vast Steinhof hospital lies a ward called Spiegelgrund, where the Nazi state sends children it considers worthless: those without parents, those who do not fit in, those it labels racially inferior. Doctors use the frailest and sickest for experiments before killing them. The novel concentrates on two people in this enclosed corner of wartime Europe: Adrian Ziegler, a boy confined there, and Anna Katschenka, a nurse with responsibility on the ward, both bent out of shape for good by what happens. For the children who come out alive, survival itself becomes a permanent emergency.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 551 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria, 1940–1945
- First published
- 2014 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9789100134693 (original)
9780374122805 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780571288465 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)
9781250132260 (Picador, United States)
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