num_pages: 155
description: ‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’ So begins Jay in Hanif Kureishi's coruscating story of the end of a relationship.Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.
language: English
title: Intimacy
titlecomplete: Intimacy
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Relationships, Novels
ratings_count: 5399
publisher: Faber and Faber