She and her siblings, along with her husband Antonio and her baby, Lali, all live in a one-room shack in Vallecas. Desperately poor, the oldest sister, Julia, tries to keep the family together, including her younger sister and brother, Ana and Rafa. The father was shot by Franco’s minions, and the mother was imprisoned and dragged through the streets in humiliation before she died. The Torres Moreno family resisted Franco during the Civil War, and both parents were killed. Both parts are interspersed with excerpts from historical documents that provide context about the time. The second part of the novel, set 18 years later, follows the immediate aftermath of Franco’s death in 1975. The first and longest part of the novel, set in Madrid in 1957, explores the lives of the people living under the fascist control of dictator Francisco Franco. The Fountains of Silence is about silence and memory-in this case, the memory of trauma.
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