Is there a movie on Between Shades of Gray?
After years of anticipation, the film adaptation of Ruta Sepetys’ critically acclaimed historical novel Between Shades of Gray (2011) is opening January 11th. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last September under the title Ashes in the Snow, and this weekend marks its wide release.
What is between the shades of GREY about?
It’s the story of 15-year-old Lina, her younger brother, and their mother, whom the Soviets deport from their Lithuanian home to a Siberian labor camp in 1941. Babies, children, the elderly, and even grieving parents die awful deaths, and many more suffer terribly as they struggle to survive.
Is there a sequel to the book Between Shades of Gray?
Although I don’t currently have plans for a sequel to “Between Shades of Gray” you never know what will happen in the future. 🙂 My forthcoming novel, Salt to the Sea, will be published in February and it features one of the characters from “Between Shades of Gray.” So it could be considered a companion novel.
How many pages are in Between Shades of Gray?
338
Between Shades of Gray
| Author | Ruta Sepetys |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 338 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-133588-9 |
Why is the title Between Shades of Gray?
Between Shades of Gray takes its title from the complex nuances of morality that Lina, the teenage protagonist and narrator, experiences and must grapple with during her years of imprisonment in the harsh Soviet labor camps of Siberia during World War II.
How old is Lina in Between Shades of Gray?
fifteen-year-old
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known.
Do Lina and Andrius get married?
Though Andrius and Lina are separated after Lina and her family are moved from the first camp, Lina’s letter in the epilogue shows that the two survived, reconnected, and eventually married.
Is between shades of GREY sad?
This bitterly sad, fluidly written historical novel tackles a topic woefully underdiscussed in English-language children’s fiction: Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror.
Is Lina vilkas a real person?
In the novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys documents the life of a fictional 15-year-old Lithuanian girl named Lina Vilkas and her family as the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) forcefully takes them from their home and sends them on a terrifying journey to Siberia as slaves.
How old is Ruta Sepetys?
54Â years (November 19, 1967)Ruta Sepetys / Age
What is Andrius’s mother forced to do?
Lina and her mother are forced to dig potatoes. Andrius gives Lina some meat and potatoes after the first day of work at the camp.
How old should you be to read salt to the sea?
Content Notes. Recommended for Ages 15 up. Characters are mainly German or Eastern European.