The original novel was published in 1986. Translated from Russian into English by Richard Lourie.
The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a time warp to a variety of tempting sites and dates in the future. Moscow? The year 2042? How can he resist?
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (alternatively spelled Voynovich, born 1932 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
