{"product_id":"audition-by-katie-kitamura","title":"Audition by Katie Kitamura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for The Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent and New Statesman Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaut and hypnotic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAudition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BAREFOOT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51346987385084,"sku":"24176","price":3100.0,"currency_code":"LKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/9049\/0556\/files\/Untitleddesign_8_ffc64a46-eaa5-40f0-9489-96610bb4dbe0.png?v=1789819811","url":"https:\/\/barefootceylon.com\/products\/audition-by-katie-kitamura","provider":"BAREFOOT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}