Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner is an American novelist whose ambitious, formally inventive fiction has made her one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation. She has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and twice a finalist for the National Book Award. Creation Lake follows a woman who infiltrates a radical commune in the south of... France, blurring the lines between surveillance and belief. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Kushner's previous novels include The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba. Her fiction is characterised by its intellectual ambition, its political engagement, and its vivid sense of place. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers ambitious, electrifying literary fiction that takes on big themes — politics, art, and the forces shaping contemporary America and beyond. Read more Show less