As the book goes on, they discover the implications of the effects of the Spanish Civil War had on their family while under General Franco’s dictatorship. She and her family suffered hardships as a byproduct of the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. When traveling to Spain with his family, he crosses paths with Ana, a maid at the Hotel Castellana Hilton. Ruta Sepetys’s new book “ The Fountains of Silence” follows the lives of four characters, three Spanish and one American, as they navigate fascist controlled Spain and attempt to find their truths.ĭaniel is the son of a Texan oil tycoon, yet he doesn’t want to take over the business he wants to become a photojournalist. A happy ending.īut for the Spaniards, their suffering was only beginning. Ruta Sepetys’s book “The Fountain of Silence” explores the dangers of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s reign in the years following World War II.
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