Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live

Update: 2024-11-10

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In Rachel Kushner’s latest novel, Creation Lake, an undercover agent is tasked with sabotaging a group of young activists in rural France. Rachel joins Mattea Roach to talk about blending a spy premise with meditations on life’s big questions, putting an anti-hero at the centre of her story and why writing this novel was a transcendent experience. Creation Lake is a finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize.

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Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live

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Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live

Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live