- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529937299
- Length: 224 pages
- Price: £9.99
Financial TimesKitamura is unparalleled . . . Always engaging and thought-provoking . . . Audition is a lightning bolt of a novel
Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of ORBITAL, Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025*Katie Kitamura’s latest novel, Audition, is slick, sharp, strange and singular. I love her work; she’s a writer who can conjure intrigue from the scantest detail, and you’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath
Alex Preston, ObserverKitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today
GuardianA literary performance of true uncanniness: one that, in a very real sense, takes on life
IndependentAudition has powerful things to say about our present destabilised society . . . This superb, thoughtful novel resonated long after finishing
Evening StandardKitamura is always worth reading
New StatesmanKitamura 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
Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025*A daring, riddling novel . . . A literary hall of mirrors that explores the deepest questions about performance, identity and how we relate to each other
Hernan DiazYou 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
London Review of BooksHighly accomplished . . . What makes Audition distinctive is a precision, a sharpness of focus
About Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura's most recent novel is Intimacies. One of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2021. In France, it won the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and was nominated for the Prix Fragonard. Her previous novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. A recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television.
Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze and others. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze and others. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
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