Book Review: Forbidden love story blunts impact about atrocities in The Fountains Of Silence

The Fountains Of Silence looks to a bygone dystopian Spain under a dictatorial General Francisco Franco, who led with an iron fist after overthrowing democratic forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) until his death in 1975. PHOTO: PHILOMEL BOOKS
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THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE

By Ruta Sepetys

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