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I haven't read a teen historical fiction book in awhile. I can't believe I haven't read this one until now. Ruta Sepetys never disappoints. I loved it and I disliked it at the same time.
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Lina--gadis 15 tahun, ibu, dan adik laki-lakinya tinggal di Lithuania. Saat Soviet menduduki negara tersebut, mereka sekeluarga pun diciduk. Sementara itu sang ayah terpisah entah ke mana. Mereka dipaksa tinggal di dalam gerbong bersama puluhan orang lainnya, lalu dikirim ke kamp kerja paksa, dan kemudian dikirim lebih jauh lagi ke utara. Di sana hanya ada salju, dan perlahan kelompok kecil mereka pun melemah.
Meski demikian, ibu Lina, Elena, demikian tangguh.Di hatinya kebajikan bertahta. Kelap ...more
Meski demikian, ibu Lina, Elena, demikian tangguh.Di hatinya kebajikan bertahta. Kelap ...more
Tragic. A look at the early 1940s through the eyes of a Lithuanian teenager whose family is rounded by up Stalin's guard and transported to Siberia. Their "crimes" in the eyes of the communist state are not really clear to our narrator until late in the book, but it was obvious that most of the people in her train car were educators or highly educated. This book has an engaging narrator who tells a story that is not often found in novels about World War II. Unique and worth reading.
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not THAT Shades of Gray :)
This novel is set in 1941 Lithuania, and tells the almost-forgotten (or rarely mentioned, anyway) tale of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. While history lessons focus on the Jewish Holocaust, similar atrocities were occurring under Stalin (a US ally, no less), as families were deported to Siberia.
This novel was written not as a history lesson, but as a personal story, and I was shocked halfway through the book to realize that it was not a memoir (although th ...more
This novel is set in 1941 Lithuania, and tells the almost-forgotten (or rarely mentioned, anyway) tale of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. While history lessons focus on the Jewish Holocaust, similar atrocities were occurring under Stalin (a US ally, no less), as families were deported to Siberia.
This novel was written not as a history lesson, but as a personal story, and I was shocked halfway through the book to realize that it was not a memoir (although th ...more
Poignantly drawn fictional story based on the author's ancestors' actual experiences as Lithuanians persecuted during WWII. The survivors were forced to keep silent about their horrific experiences for decades afterward.
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