Identity
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780571195671
Subjects: Fiction, psychological; Man-woman relationships, fiction
Description: Sometimes — perhaps only for an instant — we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us.

With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of his new novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to
cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.