![]() ![]() She is drawn to a guest at the hotel named Daniel, a young white man from Texas. He is tormented by the memory of his father’s murder-which he and his sisters, Julia and Ana, witnessed firsthand-at the hands of “the Crows,” Franco’s guards.Īna, Rafa’s sister, is now a maid in a hotel and dreams of leaving Spain. Rafa must deal with blood every day in his job at a slaughterhouse, but blood is a part of his past as well. The first part of The Fountains of Silence takes place in Madrid in 1957, as Sepetys follows four young people who are all trying to set the course for their futures through alternating chapters narrated in third person. In her stunning new novel, New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys, author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray, turns her attention to a period rarely (if ever) covered in American young adult literature: 1950s Spain under the rule of Francisco Franco. ![]()
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