Audition
| Author: | Katie Kitamura |
|---|---|
| Format: | Hardback |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| No. of Pages: | 208 |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
27 USD
Synopsis
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
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.
Author
Kitamura graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey and earned a PhD in American literature from the London Consortium.
She is the author of five novels. Intimacies was selected as one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2021.
Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze, and others, and teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Her fifth novel, Audition, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
