Omon Ra
By: Victor Pelevin ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
Contributors: Bromfield, Andrew.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Astronauts -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.