BookTalk introduces readers to a carefully chosen, provocative selection of novels for reading and informal discussion, considering the author’s writing techniques and the character’s personal journeys. Readings include translations of books from other countries and cultures in the search for fictions that illuminate the lives and understanding of those from all across the globe.
This class focuses on Creation Lake (2024) by Rachel Kushner. Short-listed for the Booker Prize, Creation Lake is a novel about a thirty-four-year-old American female secret agent sent to a remote corner of France for the purpose of infiltrating a commune of radical eco-activists. Cynical about the activists' idealism in this region of old farms and prehistoric caves and confident of her surveillance strategy, she is also seduced by the charismatic leader of this group. Kushner's latest work has been described as "high art, high comedy, and irresistible pleasure."
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