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Ruta Sepetys

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Ruta Sepetys is the award-winning, bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy and Salt to the Sea, for which she won the 2017 Carnegie Medal. From the Hardcover edition. (Bowker Author Biography)

Verk av Ruta Sepetys

Strimmor av hopp (2011) 4,966 exemplar
Salt to the Sea (2016) 3,384 exemplar
Out of the Easy (2013) 1,679 exemplar
The Fountains of Silence (2019) 1,341 exemplar
I Must Betray You (2022) 769 exemplar
Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel (2021) — Författare — 89 exemplar
The Bletchley Riddle (2024) 5 exemplar
The Ruta Sepetys Collection (2021) 3 exemplar
Sůl moře (2021) 2 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Šepetys, Rūta
Födelsedag
1967-11-19
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bostadsorter
Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Utbildning
Hillsdale College (BS|International Finance)
Yrken
Novelist
Business Manager
Nonprofit Director
Organisationer
Make a Noise Foundation
Mike Curb College of Entertainment
Sepetys Entertainment Group, Inc.
Priser och utmärkelser
Cross of the Knight of the Order (Lithuania)
Rockefeller Bellagio fellow
First American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament
Kort biografi
Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American whose parents' history inspired her to research and then write about the Lithuanian deportation by the Soviets in the 1930s and 1940s.
Ruta Sepetys (born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is a #1 New York Times bestseller, international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal.

She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament and NATO. Her work is published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently in development for film and television.

Born in Detroit, Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. She earned a B.S. in International Finance from Hillsdale College. While overseas, she studied at the Centre d’études Européennes in Toulon, France and at the ICN Graduate Business School in Nancy, France.

Following graduation Sepetys moved to Los Angeles. In 1994, she launched Sepetys Entertainment Group, Inc., an entertainment management firm representing Grammy-award-winning guitarist Steve Vai, multi-platinum songwriter Desmond Child, Orange County modern rockers Lit, and Emmy-nominated film composer Niels Bye Nielsen.

In 2002, Sepetys was featured in Rolling Stone magazine's "Women in Rock" special issue as a woman driven to make a difference. Sepetys is on the Board of Advisors for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University and is also a director of the Make a Noise Foundation, a national non-profit that raises money for music education. Sepetys published her first novel in 2011 and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been described as a "seeker of lost stories" who hopes to give voice to those who weren't able to tell their story.

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This is set in the 1950’s about twenty years after Generalissimo Franco’s rule began in Spain. Franco is beginning to allow business with other countries.

Daniel, is the son of a rich Texas oilman. His father hopes to make oil deals which will enrich both his business and Franco. He has traveled to Madrid with his family to meet the dictator in person. Daniel has no interest in the oil company and plans to be a photojournalist. Although he has been cautioned about taking photographs in Franco’s Spain, he does so, capturing images that the dictator’s strong men are not happy to see, including a nun carrying a dead baby.

Daniel is intrigued by Ana, a maid at the hotel. Her parents were both anti-Franco republicans, killed during the revolution. Lke other offspring and relatives of those who fought Franco, Ana's family are still paying the price.

This is a vivid picture of Spain under Franco’s dictatorship: there are many orphaned children of the anti-Franco movement, who, denied education and opportunity, have no path to better themselves. A friend of Ana’s brother, an orphan who sleeps on the streets, takes up the path of bullfighting as a means to escape his situation.

But the true story here is the continuing mystery of thousands of children who disappear from those who fought against Franco.

There is also a strong romantic story in this novel, too, which does give it more YA tones than the others I have read by this author.

Once again Sepetys has produced strong research and an unforgettable story.
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streamsong | 59 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
Great YA historical fiction
 
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mjphillips | 51 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |
Ruta Sepetys never fails to deliver an amazing book. Another piece of history that I knew very little about. In 1940, the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. It's estimated that Stalin killed more than twenty million people during his reign of terror.
 
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Dianekeenoy | 348 andra recensioner | Feb 5, 2024 |
Historical fiction told from the points of view of four individuals thrown together as they flee the advancing Russian army in East Prussia in the final days of World War II, all ultimately boarding the ill-fated German ship, Gustav Wilhelm. This real ship, meant to hold 1,500 passengers was crammed with 10,000 refugees trying to escape when it was hit by three torpedoes launched by a Russian submarine; about 9,000 people perished in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea. Those narrating characters, all with secrets — Lithuanian nurse Joana, who had been allowed to resettle in Germany; pregnant Polish teenager Amelia; delusional Nazi zealot and soldier Alfred; and Prussian art restorer Florian — as well several other characters they travel with (Eva, Ingrid, Klaus, and the "Shoe Poet") are all believably and beautifully rendered and fully developed, and while they are fictional people, the events that cuased their staggering struggle for survival are tragically.

I previously read Fountains of Silence by Ms. Sepetys, historical fiction set in the post-WWII Franco regime in Spain, which I enjoyed; this one had the same level of credibility and was quite special in that it gave voice to a diverse cast of ordinary people, even though fictional in this case, whose stories would have been lost in time -- not the military or the political, but the real people who are just numbers in the official histories. The author’s note discusses the real life tragedy of the torpedoing of the Gustav Wilhelm – and the countless other lives – military and civilian – lost in the Baltic Sea during WWII – and challenges other writers to give voice to the truths hidden from the official histories.
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bschweiger | 191 andra recensioner | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Verk
12
Medlemmar
12,321
Popularitet
#1,902
Betyg
4.2
Recensioner
783
ISBN
222
Språk
18
Favoritmärkt
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