Audition 9781529937299 Paperback

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE****LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026****A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION****A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2026**AGUARDIAN,INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year’Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . Youll gulp this novel down in one in-breath’SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author ofOrbital’A lightning bolt of a novel’FINANCIAL TIMES’Im not sure theres anyone better writing in America today’ALEX PRESTON,ObserverOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we loveTwo people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. Shes an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. Hes 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,Auditionis Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.