In keeping with August as Women in Translation Month – a project to promote women writers from around the world who write in languages other than English (#WITMonth) – this month’s fiction in translation column focuses exclusively on women writers.
To date, the translated work of Argentine writer Claudia Pineiro has been in crime fiction, but she has long been an advocate on a range of issues such as abortion and femicide. In Elena Knows (Charco Press) we get to see both of these aspects. This circadian novel follows Elena, a 63-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease, as she persists in trying to understand the apparent suicide of her daughter, which she suspects to be murder but which the authorities see as a closed case.
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