An Island in the Sea. A Pond of White Lilies. In 2 Volumes. Volume 1.

Author: Annika Tor
Illustrator: Ekaterina Andreeva
Translator: Marina Konobeeva
Publisher: Samokat

Series: Annika Tor
Genre: Young Adult Literature
ISBN: 978-5-91759-493-4 all
Pages: 512 (Offset)
Design
Weight: 526 g
Dimensions: 205x145x33 mm

Sisters Steffi and Nelly have to flee to Sweden, escaping persecution as Jews in their native Austria. This means that the girls will have to live here—at the edge of the world, with different families, and later in different cities, hundreds of miles away from their parents. It is unknown how long this will last, and it seems that here there is only sea and stone. There is no war here, no persecution of Jews, but there are people who support fascism... And Steffi and Nelly themselves remain ordinary girls, even in a foreign country.

Annika Tor's tetralogy is being republished in Russia in two volumes—two books in each volume. The first volume includes the books "An Island in the Sea" and "The Pond of White Lilies". The first part, "An Island in the Sea", was published in Russian for the first time in 2006, immediately became a bestseller, and won the All-Russian competition "Children's Reading Jury".
The continuation of Steffi and Nelly's story is in the second volume, "The Depth of the Sea. The Open Sea".
For middle and high school ages.