Rachel Kushner

FINALISTA DEL BOOKER 2024Sadie Smith, una seductora y astuta espía estadounidense, ha sido enviada por sus misteriosos y poderosos empleadores a un remoto rincón de Francia.Su misión: infiltrarse en una comuna de activistas eco-radicales, influenciados por las creencias de un enigmatico anciano, Bruno Lacombe, que ha rechazado la civilizacion, vive en una cueva neandertal y defiende que el camino hacia la iluminacion es un regreso al primitivismo.Sadie, con su mirada cinica, observa esta region de antiguas granjas y pueblos adormecidos y se burla del idealismo de Bruno. Pero, justo cuando esta convencida de que es la seductora y titiritera de todos a los que vigila, Bruno Lacombe comienza a seducirla a ella con sus ingeniosas contra-historias, sus lamentos llenos de arte y su propia historia tragica.Bajo esta deslumbrante y tensa trama de espionaje e intriga, se esconde la historia de una mujer atrapada en el fuego cruzado entre el pasado y el futuro, y una profunda reflexion sobre la historia de la humanidad.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Brunos idealism laughable, but just as she is certain shes the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.

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An epic novel that encompasses fifty years of American historyWith an introduction by Rachel KushnerUnderworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR''s first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling.DeLillo loosely follows the fate of the winning baseball as the book swells and rolls through time. He offers a panoramic vision of America, defined by the overarching conflict of the cold war. This is an awe-inspiring story, seen in deep, clear detail, of men and women, together and apart, as they search for meaning, survival and connection in the toughest of times.

This is shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014. It is longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed. A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left and drawn into a spiral of violence and betrayal. The Flamethrowers is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other. Best Books of the Year: Guardian; New York Times; The Times; Observer; Financial Times; New Yorker; Telegraph; Slate; Oprah; Vogue; Time; Scotsman; and Evening Standard. It is shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Womens Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson. As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers' STYLIST'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful' NEW YORK TIMES'Breathtaking' VOGUE

Romy Hall, vingt-neuf ans, vient d ªtre transférée á la prison pour femmes de Stanville, en Californie. Cette ancienne strip-teaseuse doit y purger deux peines consécutives de réclusion á perpétuité, plus six ans, pour avoir tue l homme qui la harcelait. Dans son malheur, elle se raccroche a une certitude : son fils de sept ans, Jackson, est en securite avec sa mere. Jusqu au jour o l administration penitentiaire lui remet un courrier qui fait tout basculer.Oscillant entre le quotidien de ces detenues, redoutables et attachantes, et la jeunesse de Romy dans le San Francisco des annees 1980, Le Mars Club dresse le portrait d une societe en marge de l Amerique contemporaine.Cette comedie noire est la confirmation d un talent feroce qui lie conscience sociale et humour coriace. D une beaute souvent saisissante, Le Mars Club degage une sorte d assurance captivante. Marguerite Baux, Elle.Une prose electrique. Eric Neuhoff, Le Figaro litteraire.Phenomene de la nouvelle scene litteraire americaine, Rachel Kushner signe un troisieme roman virtuose. Leonard Billot, Les Inrockuptibles.Prix Medicis etranger.Traduit de l anglais (Etats-Unis) par Sylvie Schneiter.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Imagine Slow Horses Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comers character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carre' OBSERVERSeductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Brunos idealism laughable, but just as she is certain shes the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ

Now includes a new essay, Naked Childhood, about Kushners family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco!The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout. Taylor Antrim, VogueFrom a writer celebrated for her chops, ambition, and killer instinct (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Rachel Kushner has established herself as the most vital and interesting American novelist working today (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our timesand illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction.In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor, said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: The authority and precision of Kushners writing is impressive, but its the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.

* Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazines #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of the Year by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue;O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker;Time;Flavorwire;Salon; Slate; The Daily BeastSuperbScintillatingly aliveA pure explosion of now.The New YorkerReno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activityartists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sortsby dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner.

TIMES #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDLONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALAn instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwoodgritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulledand from Stephen KingThe Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.Its 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Womens Correctional Facility, deep in Californias Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is wholly authenticprofoundluminous (The Wall Street Journal), one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists (Entertainment Weekly).

Sadie Smith, ex-agente du FBI, est envoyée par ses mystérieux employeurs pour infiltrer une communauté d’éco-activistes radicaux dans un village français entouré de grottes millénaires. Sa mission :

A National Book Award Finalist for FictionThe debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called shimmering (The New Yorker), multilayered and absorbing (The New York Times Book Review), and gorgeously written (Kirkus Reviews).Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in pre-revolutionary Cuba, where the American expatriates tend their own fiefdomthree hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave under the shadow of the Batista dictatorship. If the rural tropics are a childs dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around themthe mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence.In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Maziere, whose seductive demeanor cant mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing revolutionary underground and the political upheaval that will soon transform the island. When Fidel Castro and Raul Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, torching the sugar and kidnapping a boat full of "yanqui" revelers, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony and its corporate imperialism humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come.Kushners first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times - and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction.In razor-sharp essays spanning literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, Kushner takes us from Jeff Koons and Marguerite Duras to a Palestinian refugee camp, from her love of classic cars to her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.Im glad to taste something this sharp, this smart Olivia LaingWild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughoutVogueAn exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal Kevin Barry, New Statesman, Books of the Year

« D’une beauté folle, sensuelle et dévastatrice. »The New York Times Les routiers sont sympas est un recueil de dix-neuf textes tranchants comme des lames de rasoirs, où Rachel Kushner semble i

Romy Hall, 29 ans, vient d’être transférée à la prison pour femmes de Stanville, en Californie. Cette ancienne stripteaseuse doit y purger deux peines consécutives de réclusion à perpétuité, plus six