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O Longo Inverno (2011)

by Ruta Sepetys(Favorite Author)

4.34 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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Contraponto

review 1: This is a well-written book, taking as its subject matter the capture and deportation of a cultured, well-educated Lithuanian family. 15 year-old Lina, her younger brother and her gentle mother are arrested by Soviet secret police and sent (on what is a lengthy journey, indeed) to a Siberian work/death camp. Interestingly, the year is 1941 -- placing it well within the horrendously long roll call at World War II atrocities, although the Baltic liquidations are not nearly as well-known as the German concentration camp horrors.The author was inspired by her own Lithuanian family history and a desire to tell a story which had long been suppressed by the Soviet regime. She is very considerate of her target age group, though, and the simple writing style and point-of-view of ... morethe 15 year-old protagonist keep the story from the overly grisly. I felt it was a worthy novel, but not quite a novel that I found unputdownable. I was never completely drawn in by the narrative voice.
review 2: Between Shades Of Gray is about a girl named Lina and her family who lived in Luthiana, Lina and her family were always a happy family, but one day their worst nightmare began, Lina and her family were deported from their hometown, they didn't know what was happening but they just had to play along, because if they did anything bad or got caught doing something bad they would either get killed, or they would get really hurt. Lina and her family and a lot of other people were first deported to a camp where they had to work really hard, the NKVD wanted them to sign a paper that said they would be there for 25 years, but Lina and her family refused to sign it. After so long Lina and her brother and mother and a few other people were deported again, but this time their train cars had a light and it didn't smell as bad, but when they got to an island they had to work their for food, and they had to build a Jurta to live in for the really bad storm that was coming. They never got firewood unless they stole it or they made some, they never got food either, because they thought they were filthy pigs and didn't deserve food. But Lina and Jonas had a really hard time so did their mother, they were so cold, and very weak. less

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Ella

This is a well-written book, taking as its subject matter the capture and deportation of a cultured, well-educated Lithuanian family. 15 year-old Lina, her younger brother and her gentle mother are arrested by Soviet secret police and sent (on what is a lengthy journey, indeed) to a Siberian work/death camp. Interestingly, the year is 1941 -- placing it well within the horrendously long roll call at World War II atrocities, although the Baltic liquidations are not nearly as well-known as the German concentration camp horrors.The author was inspired by her own Lithuanian family history and a desire to tell a story which had long been suppressed by the Soviet regime. She is very considerate of her target age group, though, and the simple writing style and point-of-view of the 15 year-old protagonist keep the story from the overly grisly. I felt it was a worthy novel, but not quite a novel that I found unputdownable. I was never completely drawn in by the narrative voice.

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This book is about a fifteen year old girl named Lina. Russian officers barged into her family’s home without any reason as to why, Lina and her mother and brothers were all taken to a train station with many other people. They are in the train for a couple days separated from her father who believes they are going to Siberia. They are sent to a prison camp for 10 months. They later end up serving 12 years of hard labor. The story is based off of a letter found that Lina wrote to her father.The genre of this book is culture. The format of this book is a chapter book. The reading level for this book would be middle school students. This book could be used in a unit on the holocaust. The theme of this book would be the soviet war. I think that anyone from any gender, race, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book. Sepetys, R. (2011). Between shades of gray. New York, NY: Philomel Books

amy

4.5Amazing book! Heartbreaking and hopeful in the same breath...

Ria

Powerful. Something I want my daughter to read in the future.

coolchick

Add Sepetys to the "must read" list of YA authors.

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