Creation Lake [electronic resource] : From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
Rachel Kushner2024
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**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 mos...
Rachel Kushner, Author
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House UK, 2024
1 online resource (1 audio file) (306 MB, 11:09:04 H)
Narrator: Rachel Kushner
Adult
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
9781529904178
English
517033
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