Elena Knows

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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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161 printed pages

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Vika Havahashared an impression10 months ago
The book is mostly about Parkinson's disease. Therefore i could vividly imagine some routine moments.
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Arooma Zehrashared an impression2 years ago
💡Learnt A Lot
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Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
Maybe tomorrow, when she opens her eyes and takes her first pill of the morning, she’ll know. Or when she takes the second one. Maybe
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Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
Do you think that Rita thought she was going to inherit my illness?, she asks. No, I think she couldn’t stand that you had it. She never said that. Sometimes it’s easier to shout than to cry
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Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
She’d choose Rita’s insults over her absence any day but she knows that it doesn’t matter what she’d choose because death has taken away her ability to choose. Her daughter is dead.
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