In the 1930s and ’40s, Jozef Stalin’s regime killed tens of millions of people, a number so large that the mind tends to shunt it off into the abstract space reserved for statistics. Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn estimated 60 million were murdered. “Between Shades of Gray” by Lithuanian Ruta Sepetys tells the individual’s story that makes such cold facts meaningful… Lina, a 15 year old who was wrenched from her home and sent to Siberia by the evil Stalin. This novel recounts her story with a straightforward clarity that trusts readers to summon images of starvation, disease and death, and grounds them in a reality young adults can understand.
—The New York Times
This taut first novel tells the story of Lithuanian women and children deported to Siberian work camps by Stalin during WWII. The men were sent to the Gulag
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