Booker Prize: Katie Kitamura’s Audition an audacious technical experiment

By Katie Kitamura
Fern Press/197 pages/Hardcover/$45.95

There is a particular quiet strain in Western literary fiction which focuses on the interior landscapes of middle-class women. Whether or not you take to these works depends on your tolerance of seemingly plotless narratives where nothing much happens, where quiet engagement with emotional nuances take precedence over the visceral thrills of an action-packed storyline.