Cover for Ruta Sepetys’s New Novel ‘Salt to the Sea’ Revealed

06.09.2011. WARSZAWA. AMERYKANSKA PISARKA LITEWSKIEGO POCHODZENIA RUTA SEPETYS, AUTORKA KSIAZKI "SZARE SNIEGI SYBERII". FOT. MAGDA STAROWIEYSKA/FOTORZEPA *** ZDJECIE POCHODZI Z ZASOBOW AGENCJI FOTOGRAFICZNEJ "FOTORZEPA". PROSIMY O DOPISANIE ZRODLA "FOTORZEPA" OBOK NAZWISKA AUTORA OPUBLIKOWANEGO ZDJECIA. ***

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Cover Reveal: ‘Salt to the Sea’ by Ruta Sepetys

As a follow-up to her acclaimed 2011 debut, Between Shades of Gray (Philomel), a Lithuanian girl’s tale of tragedy and triumph during WWII, Ruta Sepetys’s new historical novel, Salt to the Sea, set in Europe during the same era, will be released on February 9, 2016 (Philomel). PW spoke to the author and the jacket designer about the book and its cover, exclusively revealed here.

“Salt to the Sea is set in winter of 1945 and unearths a story of World War II that has been hidden for 70 years,” Sepetys explains. “Told through the journey of four separate young people, the novel weaves together the population expulsion of East Prussia…Read more here…