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Creation Lake

A Novel

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Creation Lake

Von: Rachel Kushner
Gesprochen von: Rachel Kushner
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 2024 AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER!

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION*
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*

From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.

Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more.

In this region of old farms and prehistoric caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who believes that the path to emancipation is not revolt but a return to the ancient past. Just as Sadie is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.

Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner’s finest achievement yet—a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.©2024 Rachel Kushner (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio Belletristik Krimis Noir Politik & Spionage Psychologie Spionage Thriller

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I need my fellow readers' help here: What the ... is this book even about? I don't mind if a book has no connecting plot but consists of episodes, but if you do that as a writer, shouldn't those episodes at least include some kind of action that makes sense for the rest of the book? I find this book incredibly boring, as if the author just picked up some anthropological thoughts and wanted to use them but didn't know how to.

Also, for Europeans: The author insisted on reading the audio book on her own which means that it slowly but surely will trigger eye-rolling when she wrongly pronounces French words. Also, she is not particularly good at Intonation.

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I didn’t really get into the book until about the second third, when the narrative began to take shape. Initially, the narrator's arrogant, phlegmatic tone and constant sarcastic side comments—meant to be funny, though only sometimes were—were irritating. The lengthy, semi-philosophical interpretations of Neanderthals also felt tedious. I often found myself drifting off during the middle of the book. However, in the final third, as the pace picked up and the essay-like sections blended more naturally with the story, I started to enjoy it. In the end, I’m glad I stuck with it—the last chapters were engaging—but it took me a while to adjust to the book’s pace, tone, and main character.

Fascinating book, but don't expect a thriller

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Really, authors shouldn’t read their books aloud, especially if they can’t pronounce correctly the language used so frequently in the story. By the end, I really couldn't stand hearing the French words pronounced in English anymore. I was really fed up with it.

Could this story not be read by someone who can pronounce French correctly?

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