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

Бестселлер, основанный на реальных фактах! Они стремились жить в свободной стране и ради этой мечты были готовы рискнуть всем… Тщательно продуманный план не должен был дать осечки. Семеро молодых людей пронесли в пассажирский лайнер оружие: они захватят его – и вырвутся на волю, улетят далеко за океан! Но с самого начала что-то пошло не так. Путь к свободе оказался густо залит кровью… Кто выживет в этом страшном рейсе? И какая судьба постигнет тех, кто последовал за мечтой?