Books by Rachel Kushner

”Kushner er hurtigt på vej frem som en fænomenal og forbløffende romanforfatter.” – Jonathan FranzenÅret er 1975, og Reno er netop ankommet til New York. Hun er fast besluttet på at transformere sin fascination af motorcykler og fart til kunst. I SOHOs gamle industribygninger forsøger en vild gruppe kunstnere at udviske grænserne mellem liv og kunst, sandhed og iscenesættelse. Uforfærdet overgiver Reno sig til byens eksperimenterende kunstscene – og til kunstneren Sandro Valera. Han er en oprørsk arving til et italiensk dæk- og motorcykelimperium, og sammen tager de til Italien, hvor hun hurtigt hvirvles ned i en undergrundsverden befolket af vestrefløjsaktivister og terrorister.Flammekasterne er en fandenivoldsk og forførende fortælling om kunst, drømme og acceleration. I centrum for det hele er en ung kvinde på kanten – passioneret, sårbar og frygtløs.

An acidic portrait of the grifters and pretenders of the art world, from the celebrated author of The Mars RoomIn Rachel Kushner's latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne--where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig--where she encounters live "adult entertainment" in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author. "Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig," Kushner writes, "I want to let you in on a secret: I personally know the author of this story you're reading. Because she fancies herself an art world type, a hanger-on. Who would do that voluntarily? I mean, it's not like someone held a gun to my head and said, Be an artist. I chose it, but I still can't imagine having anything to do with the art world if you don't have to. Also, people who don't make stuff, who instead try to catalogue, periodize, and understand art, they never understand the first thing. Art is about taste, a sense of humor, and most writers lack both." Rachel Kushner (born 1968) is the author of The Flamethrowers (2013) and The Mars Room (2018). Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review.

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

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