Audition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:17th Apr '25
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 17th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising Möbius strip of a 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.
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
Sublime writing from one word to the next, from the first word to the last -- Roxane Gay
Kitamura writes with forceful, direct prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader mesmerised * Vogue *
ISBN: 9781911717324
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 25mm
Weight: 400g
208 pages