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DescriptionWinner of the Prix Medicis Etranger. 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. Promotion infoSteve Sem-Sandberg, author of the award-winning The Emperor of Lies, explores an intolerable chapter in Austria's past Author descriptionSteve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm. |