{"product_id":"audition-9781529937299","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Booker Prize-shortlisted, exhilarating 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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781529937299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 28 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x12.9(L)x1.6(W)150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 150\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eKatie 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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eKitamura’s great talent is describing the minutiae of human connections\u003c\/b\u003e, how in the course of seconds an interaction can provoke sympathy, then irritation, followed by confusion. \u003cb\u003eShe can turn a single exchange into a symphony of implications\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKitamura is unparalleled\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Always engaging and thought-provoking . . . \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudition \u003c\/i\u003eis a lightning bolt of a novel\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eKatie Kitamura’s latest novel, \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e, is \u003cb\u003eslick, sharp, strange and singular\u003c\/b\u003e. I love her work; she’s a writer who can conjure intrigue from the scantest detail, and \u003cb\u003eyou’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath\u003c\/b\u003e -- Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of ORBITAL * Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025* *\u003cbr\u003eKitamura's novels are short, sharp and deadly. \u003cb\u003eI’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Preston * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary performance of true uncanniness:\u003c\/b\u003e one that, in a very real sense, takes on life * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudition \u003c\/i\u003ehas powerful things to say about our present destabilised society . . . \u003cb\u003eThis superb, thoughtful novel resonated long after finishing\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quiet novel about the ways we hide our true selves from others – and ourselves\u003c\/b\u003e -- Barack Obama\u003cbr\u003eKitamura is \u003cb\u003ealways worth reading\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eKitamura is totally in control of her prodigious gifts. \u003cb\u003eHer confluence of style and ruthless intelligence is so distinctive that it feels almost like its own genre. \u003c\/b\u003eWhether she remains in the terrain she has established or not, \u003cb\u003ewe are lucky to read her\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring, riddling novel . . . \u003c\/b\u003eA literary hall of mirrors that explores the deepest questions about performance, identity and how we relate to each other * Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025* *","brand":"Katie Kitamura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48752450502873,"sku":"9781529937299","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/71Okz0pIUPL._SL1500_8e9c67c2-5a11-49d1-9d15-79d69f3e89e3.jpg?v=1779889787","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/audition-9781529937299","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}