Rachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novels Creation Lake, The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba ; a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K ; as well as her acclaimed essay collection, The Hard Crowd. She has won the Prix Médicis and has twice been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Folio Prize.
Her books are translated into twenty-nine languages.
Her books are translated into twenty-nine languages.

















