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Elena Knows

Elena Knows

Author(s): Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator)

Location(s): Buenos Aires

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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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.

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Author: Tina Hartas

3.75* Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022 (Fiction, With a Sense of Place). Elena has suffered the death of her daughter, who was found hanging in a belfry in the pouring...

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