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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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This one hit close to home - as someone with a family member with an advanced Parkinson's diagnosis - this is the most intimate I had to live with being inside someone who is afflicted by it. Couldn't put this one down.