Publication Date: 17/04/2025 ISBN: 9781911717324 Category:

Audition

Katie Kitamura

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 17/04/2025 ISBN: 9781911717324 Category:
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If you didn’t stop watching Mulholland Drive when you reached the box scene, this novel’s for you. Our unnamed narrator sits across the table from a young man claiming to be her son – she knows this is impossible. The scene is tense, uncomfortable, and neither character’s identity is solid. Performance takes on new meaning in the second act, when both characters assume fresh roles. Sparse, bewildering, and thoroughly addictive. – Laura K.

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**

A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year

‘Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath’ SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital

‘A lightning bolt of a novel’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today’ ALEX PRESTON, Observer

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

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