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Between Shades Of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades Of Gray

Philomel (Mar 22, 2011)
9780399254123
| Hardcover
344 pages | 159 x 235 mm
Dewey 1105
LC Classification PZ7.S47957 .Be 2011
LC Control No. 2009050092

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Labor Camps
  • Labor Camps/ Fiction
  • Lithuania
  • Lithuania - History - Soviet Occupation, 1940-1941

Plot

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Salt to the Sea comes a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal), “eye-opening” (Los Angeles Times) novel of survival and hope in the darkest of places—the inspiration for the major motion picture Ashes in the Snow"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." —The Washington PostWINNER OF THE GOLDEN KITE AWARD • A CARNEGIE MEDAL NOMINEE • A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURYA knock comes at the door in the dead of night, and Lina’s life changes in an instant. With her young brother and mother, she is hauled away by the Soviet secret police from her home in Lithuania and thrown into a cattle car en route to Siberia. Separated from her father, Lina secretly passes along clues in the form of drawings, hoping they will reach his prison camp. But will her letters, or her courage, be enough to reunite her family? Will they be enough to keep her alive?A moving and haunting novel about loss, fear, and ultimately, survival, Between Shades of Gray is a tour de force of historical and emotional storytelling.