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.