Identity

<p><strong>Kundera master of the twosome finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books <em>Identity</em> is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But<em> Identity </em>has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end. -- <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of this novel. Hailed as a a fervent and compelling romance a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness (Baltimore Sun) it is not to be missed.</p><br/>