{"product_id":"unsound-siblings-by-egon-bondy-9788024656274","title":"Unsound Siblings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new translation of Egon Bondy's classic critique and parody of Communist Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBondy's merry utopia, or rather anti-utopia, was written during the bleakest years of \"normalization\" in Communist Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. Once considered a cult novel of the Czech underground, \u003cem\u003eUnsound Siblings\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a celebration of the \"alternative way of life\" of people living deliberately outside of (Communist) state power and a mockery of the contemporary consumerist ideas of the police state, but also a light parody of science fiction, organically incorporating philosophical themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs much as this work can also be described as \"adventure literature,\" evoking, for example, the scenery of a \"mysterious island,\" its overall message reaches the power of a religious, gospel message that it is, despite all odds, possible to live in this world after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnsound Siblings\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in Czech by the exiled 68 Publishers in Toronto and circulated in samizdat copies in Czechoslovakia, later won the Egon Hostovský Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47307378589932,"sku":"9788024656274","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4552193485045.jpg?v=1771074628","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/unsound-siblings-by-egon-bondy-9788024656274","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}