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