Ashes in the Snow

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Lithuania, 1941. Fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is arrested with her mother and younger brother during the Soviet deportations and forced into a crowded railway wagon bound for Siberia. Separated from her father and stripped of the ordinary future she expected, Lina must endure hunger, forced labour and the calculated brutality of a system designed to erase both people and memory.

Lina uses drawings and coded messages to record what happens to the deportees, hoping that evidence of the family’s survival might reach her imprisoned father. This edition of Between Shades of Gray follows her struggle to protect those she loves while preserving her artistic identity and faith in human decency through exile in Siberia and the Arctic.