Unsound Siblings: 1970s Egon Bondy novel gets English translation

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Egon Bondy’s 1973 novel Unsound Siblings (Invalidní sourozenci) was recently published in English for the first time. The book is regarded as a classic parody of Czechoslovakia’s Communist authorities and is a fascinating document of the underground world of that era. I discussed Unsound Siblings with David Vaughan, author of the afterword to the English translation.

“Not many people know Egon Bondy as a novelist.

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Author: Ian Willoughby