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Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner
Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
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Brought to you by Penguin.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been 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 a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.

'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 Carré' OBSERVER

©2024 Rachel Kushner (P)2024 Penguin Audio Espionage Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Exciting
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Bruno, the enigmatic emailer aside, I felt nothing for the protagonist or any other character

Left me cold - maybe the point?

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Maybe this book needed to be read. I am afraid despite Kushners skills as a writer
I never really engaged with the story

I was surprised and disappointed by this book after it critical acclaim

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I liked the characters- especially the protagonist’s lack of moral code and intelligence. I liked also the realism that ran throughout the novel .

Humor and observation on humanity

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lots to like, but the overall tone was too arch and sneery for me. performance probably didn't help.

too insincere to feel authentic

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It’s a bit like a James Bond movie - a job that you can imagine to exist in reality but not one that you come across…. Or you may have and never realized.

It might not have been coincidence

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