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Identity: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Richmond Hoxie Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062215574

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

53

Longest Chapter Length:

08:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

27 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

04:23 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

14

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Publisher Description

""Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity 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."" — San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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, 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.

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“Insightful…Kundera lucidly discloses the psychological obsessions of the two lovers and shows how these obsessions lead to repeated miscommunications between then.”

— New York Times

Quotes

  • “Curiously absorbing, with a melancholy charm.”

    — Wall Street Journal
  • “A fervent and compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness.”

    — Baltimore Sun
  • “A novel of possessive passion…Gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera’s wit keeps us turning them to the very end.”

    — San Francisco Chronicle

Awards

  • A 1998 New York Times Notable Book for Fiction

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About Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was the author of several novels and a short-story collection originally written in Czech, and works of nonfiction originally written in French. His is best know for the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which was adapted for an Oscar-nominated film.

About Richmond Hoxie

Richmond Hoxie has performed on Broadway in I’m Not Rappaport and off-Broadway in The Dining Room, Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, and Landscape with Waitress. On television, he appears frequently in all of the incarnations of Law and Order. His film work includes JFK, Still of the Night, Without a Trace, and For Love or Money.