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    Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

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    ISBN: 9781787331747
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    AuthorKushner, Rachel
    Pub Date05/09/2024
    BindingHardback
    Pages416
    Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE LTD
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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

    'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS

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

    'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carre' OBSERVER

    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 and
    the 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.