Creation Lake

Kushner is one of America's greatest living authors

Daily Telegraph

Kushner is a young master. I honestly don't know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerising way

George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

A thrilling and prodigious novelist

Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom

Creation Lake reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture. Only Rachel Kushner could weave environmental activism, paranoia, and nihilism into a gripping philosophical thriller. Enthralling and sleekly devious, this book is also a lyrical reflection on both the origin and the fate of our species. A novel this brilliant and profound shouldn’t be this much fun

Hernan Diaz, author of Trust

Wild and brilliantly plotted… Think Kill Bill written by John le Carré: smart, funny and compulsively readable

Observer

As I read Creation Lake, I was amazed that Kushner was pulling off such a feat. I kept thinking, 'this can’t possibly work’ and yet it kept working. I was completely immersed and mesmerized. It’s a highly plotted fast-paced noir and yet full of ideas and depth. I've never read anything like it. Rachel Kushner is the most exciting writer of her generation

Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho

A big novel, in the best old-fashioned sense: raucous and intricate, verbose and laconic, intimate and cosmopolitan, full of weird wisdom and lightly-worn learning - oh, and it's funny, too

John Banville, author of The Sea

An immersive novel about an agent provocateur… It’s seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall

Mick Herron, author of Slough House

A novel of ideas about nothing less than civilisation itself, delivered in the guise of a thriller – the result is profound and wickedly entertaining.

Lisa Allardice, Guardian

At last I get to say how deeply, madly, irrecoverably I loved Creation Lake...it was all stylish and cool, and then somehow the book struck a blow to my heart, which surprised me a lot, because I did not suspect what Rachel Kushner was really up to all along.

Louise Erdrich, Kirkus

Kushner…[is] one of the century’s great American novelists… Her hugely enjoyable new novel…already longlisted for this year’s Booker, ought to put her firmly on the map… amazingly tense: wall-to-wall entertainment, and a real treat

Anthony Cummins, Observer *Book of the Week*

Rachel Kushner may have written the novel of the year... A remarkably original book

Rachel Connolly, The Telegraph

One of the best books of the year... ambitious, intelligent and gripping... an expertly slick thriller... Kushner pulls off a remarkable feat

Philip Womack, Spectator

Questions of control and coercion, reality and idealism, are layered on top of Kushner’s enveloping noir. ‘Sadie’ has a brash confidence and a manner of moving through the world that is aloof in the extreme—disbanding any allegiances or affections before they can create the faintest of tethers. But Kushner’s plot—at once arid and affecting—asks just how much any human can insulate themselves.

Vogue

Kushner’s writing is clean, tight and often very funny as she jumps between past and present but never loosens her iron grip on the reader’s attention.

Bloomberg

This capacious, brainy, [Booker] longlisted novel is her [Kushner’s] most ambitious yet; it is also her most slyly entertaining… a marvellous creation

Daily Mail

A sensationally enjoyable novel and has deservedly made the Booker prize longlist… [it is] gripping…with perfect dramatic timing

New Scientist

A lively, timely, satisfyingly rough-grained novel of ideas…[with] an excitingly complex and fascinating narrator… Sadie is a triumph of character… the world pours in on her senses, and through hers into ours

Guardian

Creation Lake, embeds big, timely ideas in a ploy that’s propulsive and fun

Mail on Sunday