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NAMED A 2025 ESSENTIAL READ BY THE NEW YORKER AND A TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, BOOK RIOT, ESQUIRE, KIRKUS, SHELF AWARENESS AND MORE!
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller." NPR
Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams. The Boston Globe
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing 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.
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Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
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lled 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, author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room
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, author of Trust
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. Audition is eerie, a book so cold it feels hot. It hooked into my mind like a burr.
Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds and Fates and Furies
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Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
