Elena Knows

By Claudia Piñeiro

Book Overview

SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022

After 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999368436
• ISBN13: 9781999368432
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Charco Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"