{"product_id":"9781771611565","title":"Flight From the U.S.S.R.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlight 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mosaic Press NY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042690121968,"sku":"9781771611565","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771611565_p0.jpg?v=1763708538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771611565","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}