Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

 

Sadie Smith’s mission is to infiltrate Pascal Balmy’s radical farming cooperative, Le Moulin, in the remote French countryside and to use it as a vehicle to sow chaos. By befriending a Parisian filmmaker, Lucien, she gains access to his family home in Vantome from where she can execute her plan. Balmy himself is a disciple of Bruce Lacombe, an anti-civver, who believes capitalism is the sure path to the end times. While the forays into philosophy are convincing, the central thesis as to why Sadie is planning subversion and under whose command, remains less certain. Passionate but needs more cohesion.