The release date for the English version of 'Identity' by
Milan Kundera is Apr 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
There are times when we momentarily lose sight of who we are with, when we question our own identity while simultaneously erasing the other's. This also occurs in relationships—indeed, it occurs most often in relationships—because lovers dread "losing sight" of their loved one beyond all else.
Milan Kundera has skillfully expanded and manipulated the significant moment to such an extent that the predicament and the resulting hazy terror are central to the story. Here, intensity and brevity go hand in hand. The reader embarks on a tortuous trip that constantly blurs the lines between what is real and what is unreal, between what happens in the outer world and what the mind imagines when it is left to its own devices. The voyage begins with a moment of confusion.
Only Kundera among today's authors is able to take such a concealed and unsettling view and turn it into the basis for one of his most brilliant, terrible, and illuminating novels. It is unexpectedly revealed to be a love tale.