Audition

Title: Audition Author: Pip Adam Fiction: 1686570 ISBN: 9781566897310 Publisher: Coffee House Press Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Fiction | Literary Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A genre-defying novel--part science fiction, part social realism--from one of the most powerful voices in New Zealand literature today. A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley, and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves--experiences of imprisonment, violence, and disempowerment. Pip Adam's transcendent new novel sets its eye firmly on our current just