Audition is a novel by Katie Kitamura, forming a loose trilogy with her previous works A Separation and Intimacies. It continues her signature “clinical” and “taut” prose style, focusing on themes of performance, identity, and the instability of the self. The novel is famously divided into two distinct halves that present competing narratives, described by critics as a “literary Mobius strip.”
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.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
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