Everyone believes that Rita committed suicide. Everyone except Elena, her mother. Because Elena knows. Because Elena, like every mother, is filled with certainties that lead to uncertainties.

A difficult journey to the capital, an old debt, and a revealing conversation compose this heartbreaking novel that uncovers the hidden authoritarianism of every hypocritical society.

Female subjectivity, the female body, and the oppressive bonds gain corrosive power through the pages of the novel Elena Knows, leading a mother and daughter to a co-existence that is brutally marginal and tragically human.

In addition to Greek, Elena Knows has been translated into English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Hebrew, and Turkish, and in Germany, it was honored with the Liberaturpreis 2010.