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Katie Kitamura - Audition, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Audition

Av Katie Kitamura

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**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**A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES'I’m not sure there’s 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. 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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-04-23
  • Mått: 198 x 18 x 129 mm
  • Vikt: 145 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781529937299
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Katie 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.

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Kitamura’s great talent is describing the minutiae of human connections, how in the course of seconds an interaction can provoke sympathy, then irritation, followed by confusion. She can turn a single exchange into a symphony of implications

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