'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
