Epitaphs for Underdogs

Andrew Szepessy was born to Hungarian refugees in Brighton in 1940. After spending his childhood in London, he read English at Oxford and studied at the Budapest Academy of Drama and Film. Szepessy worked in Norway and England as a film director, editor and scriptwriter before settling in Hungary, where he continued to write until his death in 2018.‘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 nigh