{"product_id":"the-chosen-ones-9781250132260","title":"The Chosen Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, \u003ci\u003eThe Chosen Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 during WWII, the clinic's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, award-winning novelist Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival in this profoundly moving and dramatic novel that bears witness to oppression and injustice during an intolerable period of Austria's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250132260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.50d","brand":"Steve Sem-Sandberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325188804789,"sku":"9781250132260","price":33.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_70338731-ea27-48dd-8dfa-40269883dada.jpg?v=1660017224","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-chosen-ones-9781250132260","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}