Audition

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
Kitamura writes with forceful, direct prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader mesmerised * Vogue *
Katie Kitamura is among the most briliant and profound writers at work today
Katie Kitamura is a revelatory interpreter of the human heart, in all its brilliance and obscurity