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14 September 2024

9:00 AM

14 September 2024

9:00 AM

Creation Lake Rachel Kushner

Jonathan Cape, pp.416, 18.99

Creation Lake, by the American author Rachel Kushner, is a dazzling, genre-defying novel, satirical yet profound. In her 2018 novel The Mars Room, Kushner took us inside the US prison system and eviscerated it. Here she goes back a decade, as well as 40,000 years, interweaving into the main plot notes on the extinction of the Neanderthals.

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