{"product_id":"creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner","title":"Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eFrom Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsively readable... \u003ci\u003eKill Bill\u003c\/i\u003e written by John le Carre' OBSERVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSadie Smith - a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty - is 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 a mysterious elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation tout court.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno's idealism laughable - he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But just as Sadie 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeneath this parodic spy novel about a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future lies a profound treatise on human history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Rachel Kushner's finest achievement yet - a work of high art, high comedy and irresistible pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Bridge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45210384859394,"sku":"9781787334380","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/creationlake.jpg?v=1718355043","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}