Audition - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an elegant and accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, and 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 best. Taut, hypnotic,

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Kitamura, Kitamura Katie
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2025
• EAN: 9780593852323
• ISBN: 978-0-593-85232-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction