![]() ![]() But rather than trying to solve a crime, you, reader, are tasked with uncovering what happened to the characters before the book began. ![]() ![]() Though there’s no murder or heist, The Fountains of Silence plays out like a mystery. Through the stories of Ana, Daniel, and the many characters they encounter, Sepetys educated me about a point in modern history that has been largely ignored by popular media. I love historical fiction, particularly stories about World War II, but I’d never read anything about how that seismic event played out in Spain. There he meets Ana, a young maid who, along with her siblings, has struggled to make ends meet since her Republican parents were punished for their views. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: Daniel, a 19-year-old Spanish-American aspiring photographer, is staying with his wealthy parents at the Castellana Hilton (a real place!). That said, this time period wasn’t a particularly pleasant one-at least, not if you were Spanish. ![]() The entire time I was reading (which wasn’t long, since I flew through the 475-page novel in three days), I felt as if I, too, were walking the cobblestoned streets of Madrid, the heat of the late afternoon sun on my shoulders. In Ruta Sepetys’s latest, The Fountains of Silence, I was taken to a sepia-toned summer in 1950s Spain. To another place, to another time, to a world I never could have experienced on my own. ![]()
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