Katie Kitamura Audition Hardback Book

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the YearSlick, sharp, strange and singular . . . Youll gulp this novel down in one inbreath SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prizewinning author of OrbitalA lightning bolt of a novel FINANCIAL TIMESIm not sure theres anyone better writing in America today ALEX PRESTON, ObserverOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we loveTwo people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. Shes an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. Hes 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. | Katie Kitamura Audition Hardback Book