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Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality however, was very different. Through the eyes of a child inmate, and a nurse, Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival. This extraordinary novel offers invaluable and compelling insight on an intolerable chapter of Austria's past.

The Chosen Ones

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Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a reform school for wayward... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 02/02/2017
    ISBN13: 9780571288472, 978-0571288472
    ISBN10: 0571288472

    Number of Pages: 576

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger

    The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality however, was very different. Through the eyes of a child inmate, and a nurse, Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival. This extraordinary novel offers invaluable and compelling insight on an intolerable chapter of Austria's past.

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