Creation Lake

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.

Report

One of the best books of the year... ambitious, intelligent and gripping... an expertly slick thriller... Kushner pulls off a remarkable feat Philip Womack Spectator

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Kushner, Kushner Rachel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781529933383
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3338-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Espionage and spy thriller, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary