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Intimacies

From the Booker Prize longlisted author of Audition

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Intimacies

Yazan: Katie Kitamura
Seslendiren: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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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.

© Katie Kitamura 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Intimacies is a novel about the ruthlessness of power, the check of virtue, and the purportedly neutral bureaucracy meant to mediate between them. Katie Kitamura is among the most brilliant and profound writers at work today; she reminds me how high the moral stakes of fiction can be.
The thrill of Intimacies is in the taut precision of its language, which rings and hums off the page. It's forensic and inquiring, but also bright and alive. You forget to breathe while reading it, and feel with each crafted sentence, each building thought, that you're in the company of a magnificent writer.
Katie Kitamura writes about being an outsider like no other author. Quiet moments are charged with tension and power. In short, the book is remarkable - beautifully written and intelligent.
Intimacies is a perfect novel-taut and seductive. Kitamura has made the existential thriller all her own, and she effortlessly negotiates the personal and the geopolitical with a complex moral nuance. Simply stunning.
Katie Kitamura's Intimacies - she's an incredible writer. It's fiction and a really beautiful exploration of how we can live everyday life while complete horrors and atrocities are happening in the world - how both things coexist. (Natalie Portman)
Saturated with enigmatic longing, Intimacies peels back the layers of sympathy, antipathy, and morality that both connect and divide us from others, unearthing something precious beneath. Katie Kitamura is a revelatory interpreter of the human heart, in all its brilliance and obscurity.
A haunting, precise, and morally astute novel that reads like a psychological thriller. Katie Kitamura is a wonder; her work is striking, stylish, and fully realized. (Dana Spiotta)
Katie Kitamura's beautifully wrought new novel is tense and suspenseful, a mystery about human choices. Like a work by Graham Greene, Intimacies kept me in its tight grip.
Kitamura writes with forceful, direct prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader mesmerized.
Katie Kitamura's voice - spare, electric, evocative - could take me anywhere. Especially into this landscape of global wanderers, uprooted women, fragmented souls. Intimacies is a singular pleasure - a dangerous, seductive, dagger of a novel.
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I suppose if I had the printed book in my hand, I would’ve seen what a small volume it is and I wouldn’t have been taken aback by the quick, unexpected ending. I was fully expecting the story to go on and develop for a bit longer. However while it lasted, the writer’s flowing style and descriptions of the multiple “intimacies” kept me captivated..
I gradually warmed to the reader’s performance. At first I felt she sounded a bit robotic, but her interpretation of the various characters was very helpful.

Enjoyed it while it lasted!

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Not the kind of thing I usually like but well-written, so it kept my interest. Lots of replaying and examining the protagonist's own inner dialogue/feelings/dilemmas.
Short, often mundane, sentences parsing minutiae - "Public transport was plentiful in that area. I quickly got on a tram" - effectively builds empathy for the protagonists sense of dislocation in her new life, and it works. More than the sum of its parts. Narration on Audible is a bit strange but I think it matches the writing style. Recommemded, probably especialy if you've worked as an interpreter, or felt insecure about a lover's ex.

Intriguing. Cerebral.

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The story is well told, with a believable protagonist who puts words to familiar feelings. It reflects a tensed life, but also one which threatens to spoil out of its girdle of expectations. Looking forward to more from this author.

Beautifully layered story

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excellent story.
brilliant narration of the text.
good character development.
very highly recommended.
first class writing.

very highly recommended

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beautifully written and read. Explores the process and implications of interpreting. I really enjoyed it.

elegant little story

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