audition

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 \Book of the Year according to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman. “A smooth, sharp, strange, and unique novel...that you will devour in one go.” - Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital. “A stunning novel” - Financial Times. “I'm not sure there's a better writer than her in America today.”—Alex Preston, Observer. One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating and unsettling novel that asks if we knewTruly the ones we love. Two people meet for lunch at a restaurant in Manhattan. She is an accomplished actress who is in rehearsals for her upcoming premiere. He is attractive, suspicious, young - so young that he is almost her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this captivating, well-plotted novel, two competing narratives unfold, reshaping our understanding of the roles we play every day - partner, parent, creator, muse - and the truths that each of our roles hides, especially from those who think they know us intimately. a novel“Audition”* is exciting and attractive, and one of Katie Kitamura’s finest works.