Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’ So begins Jay in Hanif Kureishi's coruscating story of the end of a relationship.
Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.
Genres: Fiction
“Ambition without imagination is always clumsy.”
“We want love but we don’t want to lose ourselves.”
“There is little pleasure in marriage; it involves considerable endurance, like doing a job one hates. You can’t leave and you can’t enjoy it. Both he and Mother were frustrated, neither being able to find a way to get what they wanted, whatever that was. Nevertheless they were loyal and faithful to one another. Disloyal and unfaithful to themselves.”
“All of us yearn for more. We are never satisfied. Wisdom is to know the value of what we have.”
