The Flight
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by Gaito Gazdanov
English translation © Bryan Karetnyk 2016
The Flight (Polyot) was partially serialized in 1939 in Russkie zapiski, and first published in its complete form in Russian in 1992.
This translation first published by Pushkin Press in 2016
ISBN 978 1 782271 80 2
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