Elena Knows

Author: Pineiro, Claudia

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 13 July 2021 by Charco Press in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 173 pages, No
140 x 196 x 17 | 224g

SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.