Creation Lake

<b>Rachel Kushner</b> is the author of <i>The Mars Room</i> which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels <i>Telex from Cuba</i> and <i>The Flamethrowers</i> were both <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i> <i>Harper&#8217;s</i> and the <i>Paris Review</i>. She lives in Los Angeles.|<p><b><i>Killing Eve</i> meets <i>Sapiens</i> in this spy novel farce profound treatise on human history propulsive page-turner and the best novel yet from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of <i>The Mars Room</i></b><br><br><b>'One of America's greatest living novelists'</b><br>DAILY TELEGRAPH<br><br><b>'A thrilling and prodigious novelist'</b><br>JONATHAN FRANZEN author of Freedom<br><br>Sadie Smith &#8211; a sardonic strikingly sexy 30-something American undercover agent of questionable morals &#8211; is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her instructions are to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic svengali Bruno Lacombe and coax them into violent action provoking the French state to crush them and their dangerous ideas for good.<br><br>At first Sadie finds Bruno&#8217;s idealism laughable &#8211; he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But over time she falls for his narrative about the futility of civilisation and his promise of a new dawn for humanity. His ingenious counter-histories his artful laments his own devastating story become impossible to turn away from.<br><br>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. Written in short vaulting sections <i>Creation Lake</i> is Rachel Kushner&#8217;s finest achievement yet as a novelist &#8211; a work of high art high comedy keen insights and irresistible pleasure.</p>|Kushner is <b>one of America's greatest living authors</b>|<b>Kushner is a young master. I honestly don't know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this</b> in such a completely entertaining and mesmerising way|Rachel Kushner&#8217;s <i>The Mars Room</i> shows <b>what happens when a smart writer gets truly serious. It is a necessary and compelling book and this year&#8217;s must read</b>|<b><i>The Mars Room</i> cements Kushner's status as one of America's finest writers</b>|<b>A thrilling and prodigious novelist</b>|If you haven&#8217;t heard of Rachel Kushner yet you soon will. <b>The American novelist has earned comparisons to Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Franzen</b>&#8230; <i>The Mars Room </i>makes for a compelling read. Imagine a darker version of <i>Orange Is the New Black</i>|<i>The Mars Room</i> is <b>a portrait of contemporary America from one of the literary world's most exciting emerging writers</b>