Ruths Geheimnis

A beautiful novel about three generations of women. What a great storyteller! Aroa Moreno Durán delves into the tumultuous history of a family from the Basque Country.

They haven't seen each other for many years. No words exchanged. Now they come together again in the crooked, old house that belongs to their family. Three women, three generations, connected only by silence until now. Adirane has left her husband and child in Madrid to reorganize her life. She grew up in the fishing village on the stormy Basque coast. Raised alone by her mother Adriana, a reserved woman who has good reason not to speak about the past. And then there is Ruth, the grandmother, who, frail and aged, finally breaks the heavy silence and begins to tell her story. About her own childhood, when she had to flee to Belgium during the Spanish Civil War. And about the day of her return, when her family was no longer the same.