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Flight from the USSR by Dato Turashvili (Paperback / softback, 2015)

Flight from the USSR, the first vel 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 vel 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 t want to believe the inevitable and disastrous conclusion. He weaves a gripping literary work between historical fact and fiction, leaving the reader transfixed.

Place of Publication
Ontario
Author Biography
Dato Turashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1966, studied literature, history of art and film at Tbilisi State University and then, in Madrid and London. He also studied film and dramaturgy. His political activism started in 1988/89 with student protests in Ge
Date of Publication
28/12/2015
Country of Publication
Canada

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