India, Aug. 3 -- Dear Reader,

The Booker Prize longlist is out and our most discussed book of the year is on it!

For weeks we have been obsessed with this brilliantly constructed novella. What is the truth of our protagonist's life? We don't know what to believe about this New York-based theatre actor - she is an unreliable narrator for sure - but which version of herself is 'true'?

There is a war on, when we read the book. "Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience," says George Eliot, and in a bizarre sequence of events, we watch this come true. We see a correspondence between the competing narratives in Audition and in life. On national television, Indian anchors declare they have won the war. On the in...