Audition
An actress, a young stranger, and two versions of the same life that can't both be true.
Acheter : Amazon · Place des libraires · Fnac
Le mot de POP LIVRE
Deux cent huit pages, finaliste du Booker Prize 2025, à lire en anglais. Le livre est court et l'écriture est limpide, mais il ne cherche pas à être rassurant : il change de terrain en cours de route et laisse le lecteur faire le tri. À prendre si vous aimez les romans qui posent une question sans y répondre. À éviter si vous voulez savoir, en refermant, ce qui s'est réellement passé.
Présentation
A stage and screen actress in her late forties meets a much younger man in a Manhattan restaurant. Who is he to her — and who is she to him? In two seemingly contradictory parts, Katie Kitamura builds an unsettling puzzle about roles, performance and the selves we play, on stage and off. Cool, precise and quietly menacing, Audition turns the ground beneath the reader again and again, refusing easy answers about identity, motherhood and desire. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, it confirms Kitamura as one of the sharpest voices in contemporary fiction — a short, hypnotic novel that lingers. Édition en anglais.