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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Hardcover | Pages: 391 pages

Rating: 4.36 | 108144 Users | 16839 Reviews

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Original Title:	Salt to the Sea
ISBN:	0399160302 (ISBN13: 9780399160301)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Joana, Alfred Frick, Florian Beck, Emilia
Setting:	World War II (WW II),1945 East Prussia,1945
Literary Awards:	SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction (2016), Audie Award for Young Adult (2017), South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2019), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee for Honorable Mention (2018), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2017) Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2017), California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (2018), Lincoln Award Nominee (2018), Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction (2016), Carnegie Medal (2017), The Magnolia Award Nominee for 9-12 (2018), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2018)

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While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The ship was overcrowded with more than 10,500 passengers — the intended capacity was approximately 1,800 — and more than 9,000 people, including 5,000 children, lost their lives.

Sepetys (writer of 'Between Shades of Gray') crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy. Joana, a Lithuanian with nursing experience; Florian, a Prussian soldier fleeing the Nazis with stolen treasure; and Emilia, a Polish girl close to the end of her pregnancy, converge on their escape journeys as Russian troops advance; each will eventually meet Albert, a Nazi peon with delusions of grandeur, assigned to the Gustloff decks.

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Title	:	Salt to the Sea
Author	:	Ruta Sepetys
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 391 pages
Published	:	February 2nd 2016 by Philomel Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. War. World War II

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How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. ALL THE FEELS! Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys nurtured my body, it fed my soul, it made my heart soar. I also had a wave of despair and a feeling of intense longing when the book ended, coming to the unfortunate and fortunate realization that I would be experiencing a book hangover. (A phenomenon that occurs when you read something so good, you think you will never find something quite as good again)This book was by no means a

First Read: August 2016, Rating: 5/5 starsSecond Read: March 2020, Rating: 5/5 starsI am an emotional wreck! This is such a wonderfully evocative and poignant recount of such a dark period in human history. Sepetys has brought history to life in amongst these pages filled with pain, grief and heartbreak of the worst possible kind - that caused by other human beings.This split narration follows the lives of four young individuals and their alternate opinions and stances in the war. The year is

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.A Pole with a past. A Prussian with a mission. A Lithuanian with a secret. A German with issues. One ship. Three torpedoes.Nearly one year ago I read the highly acclaimed novel Between Shades of Grey. Now Ruta Sepetys is back, with another historical telling set against the backdrop of World War II.Sepety's novels often talk of dark and dangerous times, with a light and comforting tone

Couldn't agree more!

This book leveled me. I was unprepared. Beautiful.

I try, I really do, but Sepetys's war stories do nothing for me. Yes, I know I'm in the minority. I was one of few who didn't love her debut - Between Shades of Gray - and much preferred her second book - Out of the Easy. Now she returns to World War II and, once again, I don't get it.As with her first novel, I feel a little uncomfortable being negative about these kinds of books. This was a horrific time when some terrible atrocities were committed and I applaud the author for always focusing

the sinking of the wilhelm gustloff is the deadliest disaster in maritime history, with losses dwarfing the death tolls of both the titanic and lusitania combined. and yet, most people have never heard of it. myself included. if one of the greatest catastrophes ever recorded has become so forgotten, just think of all the small horrors people suffered during WWII that we will never even know about. my heart just aches them and the nightmares they lived through. which is why i will always