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From 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

'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS

'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN…

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2 authors picked Creation Lake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Such an original concept

Smart, sharp, and funny. A talented take on an espionage novel. I’ve never read anything quite like it.

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