Victor Pelevin ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
New York :
New Directions,
1998.
153 pages ;
21 cm
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
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.