Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro housing and Walter Benjamin

and Walter Benjamin

the East builds a wall and turns the western part of the city into an island behind the Iron Curtain

one of the key figures of modern architecture in Latin America

there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance – most notably on university campuses and online – that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down

Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro housing and Walter BenjaminFrom the Hitchcock of the River Plate (Corriere della Sera) comes Pieiros third novel, a unique tale that interveaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom. After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the 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