- Astronauts, Fiction, Soviet Union, Fiction, general
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
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Prestige, bleak, ironic and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Viktor Olegovich Pelevin
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- "Tekst", Vagrius, Harbord Pub.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- est, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785264000058
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