Audiobooks by Rachel Kushner

"Sadie Smith – 34, skrupellos, verführerisch, ehemalige FBI-Agentin – wird von einem namenlosen Auftraggeber in eine entlegene Gegend in Südfrankreich geschickt. Ihr Auftrag: Sie soll eine Kommune anarchistischer Umweltaktivisten infiltrieren, die im Verdacht steht, Anschläge verübt zu haben. Sadie blickt zunächst mit Verachtung auf die Idealisten und die französische Provinz mit ihren verschlafenen Dörfern und Höfen. Doch dann gerät sie in Kontakt mit Bruno Lacombe, dem Vordenker der Gruppe. Bruno lehnt die Zivilisation ab, er lebt in einer Neandertalerhöhle und sieht die Rettung der Menschheit in der Rückwendung zu ihren Ursprüngen. Die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm lässt Zweifel in der eigentlich so abgebrühten Sadie keimen, und sie, die die Fäden in der Hand zu halten glaubte, gerät mehr und mehr in seinen Bann. «Das Elektrisierende an diesem Roman ist die Verknüpfung von aktueller Politik mit einer dunklen Gegengeschichte der Menschheit. Kushners aufregende Ideen haben uns mitgerissen. Der ganze Roman ist ein tiefgründiger, unwiderstehlicher Pageturner.» Die Booker-Prize-Jury"

Rachel Kushner (Author), Irina Salkow (Narrator)

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Creation Lake

"Brought to you by Penguin. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** 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 Bruno’s idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she’s 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 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' OBSERVER ©2024 Rachel Kushner (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Rachel Kushner (Author), Rachel Kushner (Narrator)

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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020

"Brought to you by Penguin. A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes were stolen and friends abandoned one another in the heat of the chase, she crashed at 130mph and miraculously survived; soon after, she decided to leave her controlling boyfriend and manoeuvred her way into a freer new life. The Hard Crowd is a white-knuckle ride through that life; a book about muscling your way through, finding your own path and, as she says in the hair-raising opening piece, 'completing the ride without dying'. In nineteen razor-sharp essays she explores friendship, loss, social justice, art and more, taking us into the world of truckers, a Palestinian refugee camp, the American prison system and the San Francisco music scene, via the work of Jeff Koons, Marguerite Duras and the Rolling Stones. Fearless and bold, The Hard Crowd is an electrifying book about living fast and free in a crowded world. © Rachel Kushner 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021"

Rachel Kushner (Author), Rachel Kushner (Narrator)

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HiBrow: The Folio Prize Fiction Festival

"The three-day 'The Folio Prize Fiction Festival 2014' brought together some great writers and audiences and gave them a real opportunitey to talk in depth about their work and similar subjects. The festival included interviews and discussions with top writers, novelists, poets, critics and publishers, including Eimear McBride, Paul Baggaley, Sergio De La Pava, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Hall, Pankaj Mishra, Stephanie Merritt, Jane Gardam, Mark Haddon"

Eimear Mcbride, Jane Gardam, Mark Haddon, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Baggaley, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Hall, Sergio De La Pava, Stephanie Merritt (Author), Eimear Mcbride, Jane Gardam, Mark Haddon, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Baggaley, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Hall, Sergio De La Pava, Stephanie Merritt (Narrator)

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The Mars Room

"Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mars Room, written and read by Rachel Kushner. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of America's finest writers.' VOGUE Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy’s estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line – until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy – and through a cast of astonishing characters populating TheMars Room – Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex."

Rachel Kushner (Author), Rachel Kushner (Narrator)

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