![]() ![]() ![]() 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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