Book Review
Elena Knows (2021)
by Claudia Pinero
Argentinian author Claudia Pinero is best known in South America for her crime fiction- where she is a regular on the best-seller list for her genre work. This non-genre book is on the Booker International Prize longlist this year. Elena of the title is an elderly woman, suffering from the increasingly severe symptoms of Parkinsons disease, trying to unravel the circumstances of the alleged suicide of her spinsterish daughter, who has devoted her life to taking care of her Mother.
Elena Knows is an interesting variation on the unreliable narrator, Elena is obssessed with finding the "real" truth behind what appears to be a straight forward suicide by hanging. Gradually we learn the truth, perhaps, as always the reader is left guessing a little bit.
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