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Creation Lake

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


Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic svengali Bruno Lacombe.

Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno’s idealism laughable – he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But just as Sadie 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 parodic spy novel about a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future lies a profound treatise on human history. Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner’s finest achievement yet – a work of high art, high comedy and irresistible pleasure.

'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ

©2024 Rachel Kushner (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

'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 Bardo)

'A thrilling and prodigious novelist' (Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom)

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