• ISBN13: 9781911717324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Publisher Imprint: Vintage Publishing
• Publication Date: April 17, 2025
• Pages: 208
• Original Price: GBP 18.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 316 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Literary

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025

''An original'' RACHEL KUSHNER
''Gorgeously disquieting'' HERNAN DIAZ
''One of our most brilliant writers'' LAUREN GROFF

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising 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.