
Audition
Katie Kitamura
£18.99
This book is scheduled to be published on 17/04/2025.
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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025
‘An original’ RACHEL KUSHNER
‘Gorgeously disquieting’ HERNAN DIAZ
‘One of our most brilliant writers’ LAUREN GROFF
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.
Publisher Review
Kitamura’s novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today — Alex Preston * Observer * Katie Kitamura is a dizzyingly skilled writer, whose fictions always seem to manage two contradictory effects: a supple seductive surface, under which the chaos of minds and repressed realities roil. She’s an original, building an entire metier of her own — Rachel Kushner You have never read anything like this gorgeously disquieting book. Audition challenges our preconceptions about love, art and selfhood – and, magnificently, our very idea of how a novel should unfold. If all the world’s a stage, Kitamura reminds us that we never stop auditioning for our parts — Hernan Diaz Katie Kitamura is one of our most brilliant writers, saying far more in her silences, blank spaces and disruptions than most novelists can say in a hundred thousand words — Lauren Groff Beguilingly wonderful in its scrutiny of artistic process, ritual and selfhood — Sara Baume Sublime writing from one word to the next, from the first word to the last — Roxane Gay Katie Kitamura writes with a spare, almost clinical efficiency, but that doesn’t limit the depth of her characters or the complexity of the dynamics she depicts . . . The strange pendulum swing from one scenario to the other catches you off guard – and isn’t that the mark of truly exciting fiction? * Vogue * Katie Kitamura is among the most brilliant and profound writers at work today — Garth Greenwell Katie Kitamura is a revelatory interpreter of the human heart, in all its brilliance and obscurity — Alexandra Kleeman
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