Elena Knows
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.
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Elena, a 60-something widow with advanced Parkinson's, is on a mission. Her daughter Rita was recently found hanging from the church belfry, and Elena knows it wasn't suicide. She wants to investigate but needs someone to help. She sets out to find Isabel, a woman she remembers Rita helped save 20 years ago. Now it's time to return the favor...
This was just toooo good!! It has been quite a while since I have read something so compulsively readable and excellent at the same time
This book is a mystery thriller that explores the relationship between mother and daughter in a way that is gripping and raw. It's an incredible source of discussion for many topics: disability, bureaucracy, aging, mothers, and love.
A book that will bring up difficult discussions. Will definitely make you take a look at your own morals, values, and views. It is interesting how people can have different interpretations on the same situation.
This short novel is a heartbreaker. Elena suffers with Parkinsons disease and her adult daughter is her caregiver. Until the daughter is found dead. The story we read examines their tempestuous relationship in flashbacks, and painstakingly describes Elena’s journey to a woman for help. I cringed at these vivid descriptions, knowing them to be so very true. The novel seeks to answer What is it to be a mother?
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