Someone Speaks Your Name

A lyrical novel following an idealistic student who explores the power of literature in Franco’s Spain.

It’s the summer of 1963 and León Egea, a cocky nineteen—year—old student and aspiring author, has just finished his first year studying literature at the University of Granada and is starting a summer job as an encyclopedia salesman. León, infuriated by the injustices in Spanish society under the Franco dictatorship, comes to find that literature can speak the truth when the reality is c...