Intimacies

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. * Garth Greenwell *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. * Samantha Harvey *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. * Avni Doshi *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. * Brandon Taylor *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 * Vogue *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. * Alexandra Kleeman *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 SpiottaKatie 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. * Lynne Tillman *Kitamura writes with forceful, direct prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader mesmerized. * Vogue Best Books to Read in 2021 *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. * Danzy Senna *

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novel Intimacies, which was named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021. It was also longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Intimacies was selected as one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2021. In France, it received the Prix Littéraire Lucien Barrière, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and was nominated for the Prix Fragonard.

Her previous novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and was a New York Times Notable Book. Kitamura is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and has been awarded fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and the Jan Michalski Foundation. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television.

Kitamura has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, and frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

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