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It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stories...
Ruta Sepetys devoted three years of research into what still remains the worst maritime disaster in history, the sinking of the German military transport ship the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. Some 9,400 lives were lost.
Salt to the Sea picks up on four of those lives, a group of young people desperate to flee Germany by any means, even if this is a dangerously overcrowded vessel in a Baltic port.
Sepetys’ account is personal and unflinching. Fans of The Book Thief or Helen Dunmore's The Siege will be totally absorbed.
Ruta Sepetys is the acclaimed author of Between Shades of Grey.
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
ISBN: 9780141347400
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 277 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
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A rich, page-turning story that brings to vivid life a terrifying-and little-known-moment in World War II history. -- Steve Sheinkin
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