{"product_id":"identity-by-milan-kundera","title":"'Identity' by Milan Kundera","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA woman begins to suspect she is becoming invisible. A man becomes consumed by the fear of losing her.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this deceptively simple premise, Milan Kundera constructs one of his most intimate and unsettling novels: a meditation on love, jealousy, ageing and the fragile identities we create in order to be recognised by others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet largely in contemporary France, \u003cem\u003eIdentity\u003c\/em\u003e strips away much of the historical and political canvas associated with Kundera's earlier work to focus on the territory between two people. Anonymous letters, imagined admirers, misunderstandings and private fantasies gradually blur the boundary between reality and projection. As in his finest fiction, Kundera is interested in how desire alters perception. The novel becomes a philosophical investigation into a question that sounds simple until it isn't: how well can we ever know the person we love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally written in French following Kundera's departure from Czechoslovakia, \u003cem\u003eIdentity\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the later phase of his career alongside \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIgnorance\u003c\/em\u003e. These novels are smaller in scale than \u003cem\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being\u003c\/em\u003e, but often stranger and more distilled, concerned with memory, chance, eroticism and the hidden mechanics of intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing. Faber \u0026amp; Faber, 1998. Hardback with dust jacket. Very good condition, with light shelf wear and a clean, tightly bound interior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45725712384083,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-22T192928.636.png?v=1782120581","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/identity-by-milan-kundera","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}