Katie M. Kitamura

Una joven se muda de Nueva York a La Haya para empezar a trabajar como intérprete en el Tribunal Penal Internacional. La plenitud que le procura su nueva vida –una estimulante red de conocidos y amig

Una novela electrizante que se pregunta hasta qué punto llegamos a conocer a aquellos que nos rodeanUna joven se muda de Nueva York a La Haya para empezar a trabajar como intérprete en el Tribunal Penal Internacional. La plenitud que le procura su nueva vidauna estimulante red de conocidos y amigos, un buen empleo, una incipiente historia de amorle hace sentir que tal vez ha encontrado, como anhelaba, un lugar al que llamar hogar. Sin embargo, ese bienestar pronto comienza a resquebrajarse. Adriaan, su amante, abandona unos dias la ciudad para reunirse con su esposa y concluir los tramites del divorcio, y repentinamente deja de contestar sus llamadas. A la vez, la protagonista recibe el encargo de traducir durante un juicio a un exjefe de Estado de un pais africano acusado de crimenes de guerra, lo que la obliga a hacer suya la voz del criminal y a establecer con el una suerte de complicidad que nunca hubiera deseado. Mujer introvertida y observadora, se esfuerza por descifrar lo que esta ocurriendo a su alrededor, pero no encuentra mas que incertidumbres. Lo que parecia ser un camino recto se ha convertido de pronto en un laberinto.Hipnotica y de una rara intensidad emocional,Intimidades, cuarta novela de Katie Kitamura, muestra el indiscutible talento de la escritora estadounidense para desnudar lo familiar y revelar sus aspectos mas desconcertantes. Una lectura adictiva que se cuestiona hasta que punto llegamos a conocer y comprender verdaderamente las motivaciones de aquellos que nos rodean y que reflexiona sobre el modo en que las intimidades, escogidas o impuestas, condicionan el curso de nuestras vidas.Intimidades es tan elegante y bella¡esas frases!como psicologicamente desconcertante. Una escritora absolutamente brillante .Julie Otsuka,The New York TimesUna novela que con gran suspense explora las innumerables repercusiones que provoca la proximidad al poder y a la violencia.Time

Una mujer y un hombre se citan en un restaurante del distrito financiero de Manhattan. Ella, una actriz consagrada, está inmersa en los ensayos de su próxima obra de teatro; él, un veinteañero atractivo y algo torpe, esta empeñado en causarle una buena impresion a la dama elegante y respetable que se sienta frente a el y que podria ser su madre. Mas alla de algunos momentos incomodos y de las miradas reprobatorias de varios comensales, el encuentro, del que resulta dificil averiguar que espera obtener cada uno, discurre con relativa normalidad hasta que se abre la puerta del restaurante y, desde la mesa del fondo, la mujer distingue a su marido. Este es el punto de partida de Audicion, una obra ambiciosa y brillante en la que la trama, la estructura y los personajes interpelan al lector y lo invitan a participar del juego, en una voragine narrativa que lo atrapa y no lo suelta hasta la ultima pagina. En esta novela nada es lo que parece y, al mismo tiempo, lo que parece lo es todo: es el pasado y son los anhelos; los focos, el escenario y el exito; es el amor, la fidelidad y la conformidad. Audicion es puro espectaculo. Audaz, descarnada, transgresora... Audicion te perseguira en sueños. The Boston Globe No has leido nada como este libro increiblemente inquietante. Audicion pone en tela de juicio nuestras ideas preconcebidas sobre el amor, el arte y la identidad []. Si el mundo es un escenario, Kitamura nos recuerda que nunca dejamos de hacer audiciones para nuestros papeles. Hernan Diaz Sobria, comedida, tensa, desasosegante, la pericia de Kitamura no hace sino aumentar con cada nueva obra. The Washington Post Escrita con la inquebrantable y elegante prosa de Kitamura, Audicion es una novela emocional, inteligente e intensamente elegante cuya lectura se iguala a la sensacion de caminar sobre arenas movedizas: impactante, espeluznante, desorientadora y totalmente envolvente. Una experiencia hipnotica. Me conmovio. Jenny Mustard Kitamura es una escritora formidable. Con cada capitulo de Audicion empuja los muros de la novela, rehaciendola, ampliandola con paciencia y grandes dosis de energia. El resultado es extraordinario: una obra elegante y vertiginosa que es completamente suya. Chetna Maroo Kitamura es una pionera, creadora de su propio genero. Rachel Kushner Las novelas de Kitamura son cortas, agudas y mortiferas. No creo que hoy en dia haya alguien escribiendo mejor que ella en Estados Unidos. Alex Preston, The Observer Katie Kitamura es una de nuestras escritoras mas brillantes. Dice mucho mas con sus silencios, espacios en blanco e interrupciones que la mayoria de los novelistas con cien mil palabras. Lauren Groff

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. Shes an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. Hes 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.

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed

Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago, Cal became the only mixed martial arts fighter to take Rivera the distance -- but the fight nearly ended him. Only Riley, who has been at his side for the last ten years, knows how much that fight changed things for Cal. And only Riley really knows whats now at stake, for both of them. Katie Kitamuras brilliant and stirring debut novel follows Cal and Riley through the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, as each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. As the tension builds toward the final electrifying scene, the looming fight becomes every challenge each of us has ever taken on, no matter how uncertain the outcome. In hypnotic, pared-down prose, The Longshot offers a striking portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LONGSHOT comes this gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, Gone to the Forest is a tale of family drama and political turmoil in which fiery storytelling melds with daring, original prose. Since his mothers death, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained domestic peace, where everything is frozen under the old mans vicious control. But when a young woman named Carine arrives at the farm, the tension between the two men escalates to the breaking point. Hailed by the Boston Globe as a major talent, Kitamura shines in this powerful new novel.

NE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE SUMMER READSOne of the best novels Ive read in 2021. Dwight Garner, The New York TimesA perfect noveltaut and seductive. Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy AnimalsIntimacies is a haunting, precise, and morally astute novel that reads like a psychological thriller. Katie Kitamura is a wonder. Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward and Eat the DocumentA novel from the author of A Separation, an electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths.An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when shes asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes. A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life.

À la mort de son père, fuyant New York, la narratrice s’installe à La Haye pour devenir interprète à la Cour internationale. Femme anonyme, trilingue, perdue dans cette ville où rien ne dépasse, elle

« Christopher avait tous les droits de disparaître sans que je le pourchasse. Mais partir si longtemps sans laisser de mot ? N’y avait-il pas quelque chose d’étrange ? »La narratrice est séparée de

A Barack Obama 2021 Summer reading list recommendation*From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths.An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she's asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life.

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it''s time for them to separate. For the moment it''s a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she''s not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.

Um suspense que tem início com o fim de um casamento. Uma narradora que observa tudo e todos com uma frieza incomum. Uma paisagem árida, um hotel de luxo vazio e um desaparecimento.Quando seu casamento chega ao fim, Christopher pede a ex-mulher que a separaço fique em segredo. A parte juridica pode ser resolvida depois, mas, por ora, ele deseja que o fim seja mantido apenas entre os dois.Enquanto procura compreender como organizar a vida dali em diante, a protagonista recebe um telefonema aflito da sogra, Isabella, a procura do filho. Nenhuma das duas sabe o paradeiro de Christopher, ate que Isabella descobre que ele esta numa remota ilha grega e compra uma passagem para a nora ir busca-lo no dia seguinte.Determinada a no deixar escapar nenhuma pista sobre o termino de seu relacionamento, a narradora embarca em uma jornada a procura de alguem que ela mesma no sabe se faz questo de encontrar. Num hotel grande e luxuoso porem vazio, em baixa temporada , ela sera apresentada a uma paisagem desoladora: a area tem sofrido queimadas nas ultimas semanas e ha fogo e cinzas por todos os lados.Com estilo arido, austero e preciso, que ja foi comparado ao de nomes como Ernest Hemingway, Nadine Gordimer, Elena Ferrante e J. M. Coetzee, Katie Kitamura surpreende o leitor neste thriller psicologico que acompanha os pensamentos de uma mulher num momento de profunda solido.A contenço, a racionalidade e a obsesso com que a protagonista observa a si mesma e aos outros, sem espaço para sentimentalismo, so as marcas deste romance eletrizante, que entrelaça intimidade, silencio e misterios."Um romance inusitado, com um percurso to certeiro que mesmo o menor dos desvios parece carregado de sentido. Maravilhoso." Karl Ove Knausgrd"Uma obra perspicaz e magnifica. Desde a primeira pagina, Kitamura esta em total controle, tanto da prosa quanto dos rumos da historia. Ela e uma caçadora habilidosa, e nos somos sua presa desamparada." Teju Cole"Um livro envolvente e sofisticado, que pode ser lido com a mesma tenso de um thriller da Patricia Highsmith." BBC

Can you be a stranger in your own country? A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year-old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind. Travelling across this foreign landscape, she visits middle-class gambling halls, fight stadiums and giant shopping meccas, luxury care homes and cramped apartments housing four generations under a single roof. And she wonders in which version of modern Japan she might have belonged. Defined by its adventurous youth culture, but with the fastest-ageing population in the world, renowned for its strict social code, but producing the black-comedy violence of the Battle Royale films, the Japan she discovers is an often contradictory land of Godzilla toys and war memorials, of futuristic manga characters and brightly coloured vending machines.

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club PickA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNamed a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harpers Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.Kitamuras prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit. ElleThis is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened...A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: its time for them to separate. For the moment its a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, shes not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love. A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.

Uma atriz e o papel da sua vida. Uma atriz, dois homens, e os papéis que interpretamos fora do palco. Hipnotizante e virtuoso, Audição questiona o que sabemos, afinal, acerca de quem amamos.FINALISTA

Una mujer y un hombre se citan en un restaurante del distrito financiero de Manhattan. Ella, una actriz consagrada, está inmersa en los ensayos de su próxima obra de teatro; él, un veinteañero atractivo y algo torpe, esta empeñado en causarle una buena impresion a la dama elegante y respetable que se sienta frente a el y que podria ser su madre. Mas alla de algunos momentos incomodos y de las miradas reprobatorias de varios comensales, el encuentro, del que resulta dificil averiguar que espera obtener cada uno, discurre con relativa normalidad hasta que se abre la puerta del restaurante y, desde la mesa del fondo, la mujer distingue a su marido.Este es el punto de partida de Audicion, una obra ambiciosa y brillante en la que la trama, la estructura y los personajes interpelan al lector y lo invitan a participar del juego, en una voragine narrativa que lo atrapa y no lo suelta hasta la ultima pagina. En esta novela nada es lo que parece y, al mismo tiempo, lo que parece lo es todo: es el pasado y son los anhelos; los focos, el escenario y el exito; es el amor, la fidelidad y la conformidad. Audicion es puro espectaculo.