Identity: A Novel Paperback - 1999
by Kundera, Milan
- Used
An erotic and disturbing story about love and the psyche. After a brief holiday with her younger lover, Chantal begins to receive letters at her Paris home from a mysterious admirer. Soon, the missives, which she hides from her lover, begin to have an effect on the couple's relationship.
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Details
- Title Identity: A Novel
- Author Kundera, Milan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 180
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-04-21
- Bookseller's Inventory # X09A-01560
- ISBN 9780060930318 / 0060930314
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.35 x 0.6 in (21.56 x 13.59 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97031907
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/29/1999, Page 32
