Epitaphs for Underdogs

by Andrew Szepessy

£9.99

Fiction

Paperback

9781529111231

Published by Vintage Publishing

Published April 2021

Books > Fiction

‘A wonderful discovery’ (Ian McEwan), this is a beguiling dystopian tale of a young man confronted with the truth about freedom. 

On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does not know if he will ever be released. But he is far from alone. Others, too, are trapped within the stone walls – singers and students, sages and spies. As the days pass, the man is drawn into their conversations and their lives, and soon becomes a witness to their sometimes outlandish acts of rebellion.

Written in the early 1980s and inspired by Andrew Szepessy’s own experiences, Epitaphs for Underdogs is a beguiling and exhilarating novel about power, justice and freedom, and about the solidarity that can be found in even the most unexpected places.

‘Beautiful… With its sense of the absurd, its laughter in the dark, it belongs in the great tradition of dystopian literature, with echoes of early Kundera and Nabokov’
IAN McEWAN

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