{"product_id":"unsound-siblings","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":"Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54657103331672,"sku":"9788024656274","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9788024656274.jpg?v=1779343271","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unsound-siblings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}