{"product_id":"audition","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlist Jan Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. A mind-melting, brutalist novel, skillfully told in a collage of science fiction, social realism, and romantic comedy.' —Ockham NZ Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/Images\/Assets\/47088\/1\/Ockhams%20Fiction%20Sampler%202024.pdf\" title=\"2024 Ockhams Sampler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the 2024 Ockhams Sampler with an extract \u0026amp; Judge's comment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNZ Listener Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAudition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their incarcerated former selves. Or are they constructing those selves from memory-scripts that have been implanted in them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart science fiction, part social realism, Audition asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room – and about how we live with each other’s violences – and imagines a new kind of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePip Adam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e's previous books are Nothing to See (2020), which was shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, I'm Working on a Building (2013), and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Audition will be published in Australia by Giramondo and in the UK by Peninsula Press. Pip works at an access radio station which makes radio by, for and about communities not usually heard in mainstream media. She makes the Better off Read podcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Philip Kelly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 210mm W: 138mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206227493014,"sku":"9781776920785","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket--70_aed3c775-2c53-479a-b5b8-586c9a297d48.jpg?v=1710193721","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/audition","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}