Audition

By: Ryu Murakami

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Paperback | 4 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film auditions so that Aoyama can choose a new bride, he decides to go along with the idea.
Of the thousands who apply, Aoyama only has eyes for Yamasaki Asami, a young, beautiful, delicate and talented ballerina with a turbulent past. But there is more to her than Aoyama, blinded by his infatuation, can see, and by the time he discovers the terrifying truth it may be too late ...
Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtle and disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan's master of the psycho thriller.

Industry Reviews

'The prose in these passages is elegiac and affecting, but it has the sharp, visceral feel of the butcher's knife or surgeons scalpel ...a highly compulsive, one-sitting read, and Audition should add to the Renaissance Man's growing fanbase in the English speaking world' Irvine Welsh, Guardian 'Sex, blood and the media (shaken violently) ... in the Bret Easton Ellis/Chuck Palahniuk mode' Daily Telegraph 'A serious shocker - an inside-out romance' Independent 'A haunting Japanese version of a David Lynch nightmare' (for PIERCING) Guardian

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