Bücher von Rachel Kushner

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]...

"'Sadie Smith' is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by 'cold bump'--making him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her. ... Sadie operates on strategy and dissimulation, based on what her 'contacts,'--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more"

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' 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 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*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE ATLANTIC, GUARDIAN, VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST*

Rachel Kushner ist für ihren Mut, ihren Ehrgeiz und ihren Killerinstinkt bekannt. In Harte Leute versammelt sie eine Auswahl ihrer Essays, die sich mit den drängendsten kulturellen, künstlerischen und politischen Themen unserer Zeit ebenso befasst wie mit Kushners schriftstellerischen Grundlagen und Wurzeln. Das Buch enthält Texte über Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson und Marguerite Duras, über den Besuch in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingslager, ein illegales Motorradrennen in Baja California, die wilden Streiks im Italien der Siebzigerjahre, ihre Liebe zu Oldtimern und ihr Leben als Jugendliche in der Musikszene von San Francisco. Es schließt mit einem Finale furioso: einem wilden Manifest über «harte Leute». Zwanzig rasiermesserscharfe Essays von einer der großen Stimmen der zeitgenössischen US-Literatur.

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a wildly original first essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded worldIn 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 80mph 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 essay, 'completing the ride without dying'. Charged with hot-blooded humanity - with anger against the world's cruelties, and a free-wheeling passion for rare people, machines, movies, music, art and writing - it is an electrifying work about a woman's determination to reach the finish line.

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 * Evening Standard * Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013