Sepetys’s father fled communist Lithuania at age four and spent the next nine years in refugee camps, but it didn't occur to her to explore the theme in her fiction until she visited Romania while on tour to promote her debut novel, Between Shades of Gray, in 2011. Its 17-year-old protagonist, Cristian, has been blackmailed by the secret police into becoming an informant on his friends and family, but risks his life to covertly fight for freedom. I Must Betray You (Philomel) is set in Romania in the late 1980s amid the brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist Ruta Sepetys, whose Salt To The Sea was named to the Time’s list of 100 Best YA Books ever, will release a new historical thriller in February 2022, Oprah Daily reveals exclusively.
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