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Creation Lake

by Rachel Kushner

Booker Prize · 2024 · Shortlist
Simon & Schusterliterary-fictionISBN 9781668026762

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Booker Prize2024Shortlist

About This Book

Sadie, an American spy, is sent to infiltrate a French leftist agricultural commune in the Dordogne, while exchanging emails with Bruno Lacombe, an aging radical philosopher living in caves and communing with Neanderthal ancestors. A thriller of ideas and seduction.

About the Author

Rachel Kushner is an American novelist born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1968. She grew up in San Francisco and studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel Telex from Cuba (2008) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Read more →

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