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Zusatztext Praise for Salt to the Sea : "Ruta Sepetys is a master of historical fiction. In Salt to the Sea the hard truths of her herculean research are tempered with effortless! intimate storytelling! as her warm and human characters breathe new life into one of the world's most terrible and neglected tragedies." — Elizabeth Wein! New York Times bestselling author of Printz Award Honor Book Code Name Verity “A rich! page-turning story that brings to vivid life a terrifying—and little-known—moment in World War II history.” — Steve Sheinkin ! author of Newbery Honor and National Book Award finalist Bomb "Brutal. Beautiful. Honest." — Sabaa Tahir! New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes * "Sepetys excels in shining light on lost chapters of history! and this visceral novel proves a memorable testament to strength and resilience in the face of war and cruelty." — Publishers Weekly! starred review * "This haunting gem of a novel begs to be remembered! and in turn! it tries to remember the thousands of real people its fictional characters represent. What it asks of us is that their memories! and their stories! not be abandoned to the sea." — Booklist! starred review * "Artfully told and sensitively crafted! Sepetys’s exploration of this little-known piece of history will leave readers weeping." — School Library Journal! starred review "The inevitability of the ending (including the loss of several characters) doesn't change its poignancy! and the short chapters and slowly revealed back stories for each character guarantee the pages keep turning. Heartbreaking! historical! and a little bit hopeful." — Kirkus "This book includes all the reasons why teens read: for knowledge! for romance! for amazing and irritating characters. This novel will break readers’ hearts and then put them back together a little more whole." — VOYA "Sepetys’s...scene-setting is impeccable; the penetrating cold of the journey is palpable! and she excels at conveying the scope of the losses while giving them a human face....[T]his elegiac tale succeeds with impressive research! affecting characters! and keen! often unsettling insights into humans’ counterposed tendencies toward evil and nobility. Readers will be left to discuss which impulse triumphs here." — The Horn Book Informationen zum Autor Ruta Sepetys (www.rutasepetys.com) was born and raised in Michigan in a family of artists! readers! and music lovers. She is the award-winning! bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy . Ruta lives with her family in Nashville! Tennessee. Follow her on Twitter at @RutaSepetys. Klappentext Between Shades of Gray meets Titanic in this epic WWII-era novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating--yet unknown--maritime tragedies. joana Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It’s all your fault, the voice whispered. I quickened my pace and caught up with our small group. The Germans would march us off the field road if they found us. Roads were reserved for the military. Evacuation orders hadn’t been issued and anyone fleeing East Prussia was branded a deserter. But what did that matter? I became a deserter four years ago, when I fled from Lithuania. Lithuania. I had left in 1941. What was happening at home? Were the dreadful things whispered in the streets true? We approached a mound on the side of the road. The small boy in front of me whimpered and pointed. He had joined us two days prior, just wandered out of the forest alone and quietly began following us. “Hello, little one. How old ...
