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.
"Acutely aware of the very real trauma that attends the loosening of personhood, Audition . . . thrills at the freedoms made possible through collapse. The result is a literary performance of true uncanniness: one that, in a very real sense, takes on life" - Guardian
"Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today" - Observer
"Kitamura is unparalleled . . . Always engaging and thought-provoking . . . Audition is a lightning bolt of a novel" - Financial Times
"Audition has powerful things to say about our present destabilised society . . . This superb, thoughtful novel resonated long after finishing" - Independent
"A blisteringly incisive, coolly devastating tour de force of controlled menance . . . Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams" - Boston Globe
"Kitamura is always worth reading" - Evening Standard
"Kitamura is totally in control of her prodigious gifts. Her confluence of style and ruthless intelligence is so distinctive that it feels almost like its own genre. Whether she remains in the terrain she has established or not, we are lucky to read her" - New Statesman
"Kitamura . . . has quietly built a reputation as one of America's best contemporary writers" - BBC
"A short, propulsive novel . . . Kitamura does a good job of creating a sense of the uncanny and feeling of dread" - Daily Mail
"You won't really know what Audition is about until you read it (and even then, you may have trouble deciding what and who to believe) . . . A sharp exploration of the performances we put on every day" - Marie Claire
"Katie Kitamura only writes intense and fascinating novels" - Esquire
"An elegant knife of a story . . . In this searing, chilly and psychologically profound story lies insight into some harrowing human questions" - Kirkus, starred review
"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
"Spare, restrained, taut, disquieting" - Washington Post
"Katie Kitamura’s distinctive new novel, Audition, forms a loose trilogy with her two previous books, A Separation and Intimacies – if not in terms of plot or character, then in terms of narrative voice . . . Seductive in its consistency . . . Thrillingly done" - Literary Review
"With taut, hypnotic prose, Audition captures the unease of human connection and the inherent instability of self-presentation . . . A thrilling, disorienting read that lingers long after the final page" - Exeter Living
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'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.
"Acutely aware of the very real trauma that attends the loosening of personhood, Audition . . . thrills at the freedoms made possible through collapse. The result is a literary performance of true uncanniness: one that, in a very real sense, takes on life" - Guardian
"Kitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today" - Observer
"Kitamura is unparalleled . . . Always engaging and thought-provoking . . . Audition is a lightning bolt of a novel" - Financial Times
"Audition has powerful things to say about our present destabilised society . . . This superb, thoughtful novel resonated long after finishing" - Independent
"A blisteringly incisive, coolly devastating tour de force of controlled menance . . . Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams" - Boston Globe
"Kitamura is always worth reading" - Evening Standard
"Kitamura is totally in control of her prodigious gifts. Her confluence of style and ruthless intelligence is so distinctive that it feels almost like its own genre. Whether she remains in the terrain she has established or not, we are lucky to read her" - New Statesman
"Kitamura . . . has quietly built a reputation as one of America's best contemporary writers" - BBC
"A short, propulsive novel . . . Kitamura does a good job of creating a sense of the uncanny and feeling of dread" - Daily Mail
"You won't really know what Audition is about until you read it (and even then, you may have trouble deciding what and who to believe) . . . A sharp exploration of the performances we put on every day" - Marie Claire
"Katie Kitamura only writes intense and fascinating novels" - Esquire
"An elegant knife of a story . . . In this searing, chilly and psychologically profound story lies insight into some harrowing human questions" - Kirkus, starred review
"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
"Spare, restrained, taut, disquieting" - Washington Post
"Katie Kitamura’s distinctive new novel, Audition, forms a loose trilogy with her two previous books, A Separation and Intimacies – if not in terms of plot or character, then in terms of narrative voice . . . Seductive in its consistency . . . Thrillingly done" - Literary Review
"With taut, hypnotic prose, Audition captures the unease of human connection and the inherent instability of self-presentation . . . A thrilling, disorienting read that lingers long after the final page" - Exeter Living
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