{"product_id":"identity-9780060930318","title":"Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, \u003cem\u003eIdentity\u003c\/em\u003e is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But\u003cem\u003e Identity \u003c\/em\u003ehas 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.\" -- \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKundera, Milan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eImmortality\u003c\/em\u003e, and the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eLaughable Loves\u003c\/em\u003e--all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels \u003cem\u003eSlowness, Identity, and Ignorance\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as his nonfiction works \u003cem\u003eThe Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEncounter\u003c\/em\u003e, were originally written in French.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655293702418,"sku":"9780060930318","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca3a14f5-e3a5-49ce-8b9c-b7d1cf195bb1.jpg?v=1733378686","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/identity-9780060930318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}