{"product_id":"the-chosen-ones-9781250132260","title":"The Chosen Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Chosen Ones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Picador Usa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42614117368014,"sku":"9781250132260","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781250132260_a.png?v=1717987201","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/the-chosen-ones-9781250132260","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}