{"product_id":"unsound-siblings-book-egon-bondy-9788024656274","title":"Unsound Siblings","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new translation of Egon Bondy’s classic critique and parody of Communist Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bondy'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, \u003ci\u003eUnsound Siblings\u003c\/i\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. As 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.\u003ci\u003e Unsound Siblings\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51626950754577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51626951704849,"sku":"NGR9788024656274","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54118629671185,"sku":"NIN9788024656274","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8024656272.jpg?v=1786099007","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/unsound-siblings-book-egon-bondy-9788024656274","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}