●Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions. ●榮獲2011法國RTL電台及閱讀雜誌文學年度最佳小說及黃金風箏文學獎The Golden Kite Award最佳小說等, 各國獲獎不斷 ●西元1941年的立陶宛, 一個生活原本平靜的15歲女孩莉娜, 突然毫無預警地生活產生劇變。先是爸爸神祕失蹤, 接著蘇聯祕密警察闖進她的家中, 將她與母親、年幼的弟弟一起抓走。