Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author by Rachel Kushner (Engli

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From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France

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Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno's idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this taut, dazzling story about a woman caught in the crossfire between the past andthe future lies a profound treatise on human history. Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner's finest novel yet – a work of high art, high comedy and irresistible pleasure.

Author Biography

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Medicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.

Review

As I read Creation Lake, I was amazed that Kushner was pulling off such a feat. I kept thinking, 'this can't possibly work' and yet it kept working. I was completely immersed and mesmerized. It's a highly plotted fast-paced noir and yet full of ideas and depth. I've never read anything like it. Rachel Kushner is the most exciting writer of her generation -- Bret Easton Ellis, author of American PsychoCreation Lake reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture. Only Rachel Kushner could weave environmental activism, paranoia, and nihilism into a gripping philosophical thriller. Enthralling and sleekly devious, this book is also a lyrical reflection on both the origin and the fate of our species. A novel this brilliant and profound shouldn't be this much fun -- Hernan Diaz, author of TrustA big novel, in the best old-fashioned sense: raucous and intricate, verbose and laconic, intimate and cosmopolitan, full of weird wisdom and lightly-worn learning - oh, and it's funny, too -- John Banville, author of The SeaAn immersive novel about an agent provocateur… It's seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall -- Mick Herron, author of Slough HouseWild and brilliantly… Think Kill Bill written by John le Carré: smart, funny and compulsively readable * Observer *Kushner is one of America's greatest living authors * Daily Telegraph *Kushner is a young master. I honestly don't know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerising way -- George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the BardoA thrilling and prodigious novelist -- Jonathan Franzen, author of FreedomAn immersive novel about an agent provocateur embedded within a group of environmental activists in south-western France, and slowly becoming mesmerised by the group elder's theories about Neanderthals. It's seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall. -- Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses

Details ISBN1787334384 Author Rachel Kushner Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781787334380 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-09-03 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Subtitle From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-09-03 Pages 416 ISBN-10 1787334384 Language English Alternative 9781787331747 We've got this

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