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Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously - and at great risk - documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ruta Sepetys grew up hearing stories of her father's childhood as a Lithuanian refugee. Realizing this was a story never told in a novel for young adults, Ruta decided to tell it herself. When not writing, Ruta works in the music industry...
Ispirato a una storia vera, Avevano spento anche la luna spezza il silenzio su uno dei più terribili genocidi della storia, le deportazioni dai paesi baltici nei gulag staliniani. Venduto in ventotto paesi, appena uscito in America è balzato in testa alle classifiche del «New York Times». Definito all'unanimità da librai, lettori, giornalisti e insegnanti un romanzo importante e potente, racconta una storia unica e sconvolgente, che strappa il respiro e rivela la natura miracolosa dello spirito umano, capace di sopravvivere e continuare a lottare anche quando tutto è perso.
