Elena sabe
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Average rating3.9
Although everyone else believes her daughter, Rita, commited suicide, Elena is sure that cannot be so, and, in spite of her ill health, undertakes a difficult journey to the capital to talk to a woman whom Rita talked out of having an abortion.
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Tão raro escritores que transitam entre diferentes estilos de modo tão profundo. Eu li Catedrais (maravilhoso aliás) e é um mistério, bem escrito e interessante. Elena sabe é dramático no maior sentido da palavra, escorre a tristeza humana.
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I... am not particularly certain I enjoyed this book. I liked it, yes, but I didn't really enjoy it. I'm just... overwhelmed by feelings right now.
It's just, gosh, this was so heavy. The amount of themes that are touched upon in this tiny book, I wouldn't even know where to begin. It's not black and white for even a second, portraying sides of being human that are not palatable. Sides that I often ponder over. It's like Claudia took a pin, and then pricked me all over. That's how I feel.
I want to cry, and I'm sad, and so angry. I don't want to read this again, but I think I might, someday. I thought I came for one thing (murder mystery), and ended up leaving with a hundred others (the ugly truths of life, plus your everyday dose of existential dread). It was incredible.
Praise to Claudia for such fluidity in her writing, too. I felt a bit as when I've read Saramago.
