Dato Turashvili

Maya Kiasashvili

Flight from the USSR, the first novel from one of Georgia's most famous author, Dato Turashvili, was originally published in Georgia in 1988. Since then, it has been adapted as a stage play entitled "Jeans Generation" and translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Croatian; receiving brilliant reviews everywhere. The novel is based upon an electrifying and tragic event in 1983. Gega Kobakhidze, a young actor, and seven friends hijack an airplane heading from Tbilisi to Leningrad. They desperately want to flee from the USSR and go to Turkey. They fail, are imprisoned and a number are killed. All of Georgia and the world were caught up in these events. Turashvili is a master of drama, with a precise and compelling sense of dialogue, his characterizations are complex but powerful, his story--line is totally engrossing, and we do not want to believe the inevitable and disastrous conclusion. He weaves a gripping literary work between historical fact and fiction, leaving the reader transfixed.

Flight from the U.S.S.R.

Gemma

Era già mattina e le persone si muovevano per le strade. Due ragazzine che andavano a scuola vestite in uniforme seguirono con lo sguardo la bellissima coppia. Però non potevano sapere che Tina e Gega erano la coppia più bella del mondo perché stamattina le loro dita si erano toccate per la prima volta.

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