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Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys · first published 2011

Between Shades of Gray, later also published as Ashes in the Snow, is the debut novel of Lithuanian American novelist Ruta Sepetys and was first published in 2011. It is set during the Stalinist repressions of the mid-20th century and follows the life of a teenage girl Lina as she is deported from her native Lithuania with her mother and younger brother and the journey they take to a Gulag labor camp in Siberia. A New York Times Best Seller, the novel was nominated for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and has been translated into more than 27 languages. The novel was also adapted into the 2018 film Ashes in the Snow.

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