
In "Creation Lake," Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted spy thriller explores infiltration and deception through a protagonist inspired by real espionage cases. Translated into 27 languages, this darkly funny noir asks: how thin is the line between observer and conspirator?
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In the remote French countryside, a woman sits alone in a crumbling 300-year-old house, military-grade night vision binoculars in hand, watching the valley below. She's reading intercepted emails between Bruno Lacombe and Pascal Balmy-philosophical musings about Neanderthals, human migration patterns, and environmental activism. The house, with its leaking roof and dead rat in a trap, serves as her perfect surveillance post. She's preparing to meet Pascal, leader of an activist group called Le Moulin, at a cafe in the village of Vantome. Her mission? Infiltration. This unnamed narrator moves through the world with calculated precision. During her eight-hour journey from Marseille to this hilltop vantage point, she made numerous stops to sample regional wines, stealing jars of terrine along the way. "Theft is a way to stop time," she reflects, "it refocuses the mind." Her observations reveal both deep education and profound cynicism-she harbors particular contempt for people who use air quotes, finding such affectations unbearable. Through her eyes, we begin to see a world where everyone is performing, where identity itself might be nothing more than a carefully constructed facade.
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Cree par des anciens de Columbia University a San Francisco
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