'The Fountains Of Silence' Flows With Love, Anger, Fear And Hope
Ruta Sepetys' new young adult novel is set in Spain in the 1950s, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. A teenaged American tourist in Madrid falls for a local, with eye-opening consequences.
Ruta Sepetys last tore our hearts out with Salt to the Sea, her exploration of the human condition as seen through the eyes of refugees fleeing World War II. In her new book, The Fountains of Silence, she is intent on once again slaying us with history that is full of both beauty and terror, this time set in 1950's Spain â a country held tight in the grip of General Francisco Franco's blood-soaked dictatorship.
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