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Ruta sepetys the fountains of silence5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Inspired by Robert Capa, he begins taking photographs that capture a reality the government would prefer to conceal. With him are his Spanish-born mother and his father, a Texas oilman eager to capitalize on Franco’s new openness to foreign investment.ĭaniel has brought his most treasured possession: a camera. There she meets Daniel, an appealingly down-to-earth boy spending a month in Spain after high school. By day, she is a chambermaid at the Castellana Hilton, a grand hotel catering to American tourists. ![]() That’s certainly true of Ana, the novel’s young heroine. ![]() Even in Madrid, ordinary Spaniards live in fear and poverty. It’s 1957, but Franco’s isolationist policies and a powerful Catholic Church ensure that Spanish women are treated like chattel, Spanish babies lack basic medical care and Republican sympathizers end their days laboring like slaves. ![]() Spain under Francisco Franco is as dystopian a setting as Margaret Atwood’s Gilead in Ruta Sepetys’s suspenseful, romantic and timely new work of historical fiction, THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE (Philomel, 512 pp., $18.99 ages 12 and up). ![]()
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