The Flight

A young man's passion for his father's mistress turns tragic in this deft Russian novel by the author of modernist masterpiece The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.

“The Gazdanov revival... is nothing short of a literary event.” —Times Literary Supplement Mixing psychological drama with devastating, sunsoaked romance, this modernist take on the traditional Russian 19th-century realist novel epitomised by Tolstoy delivers a timeless statement on the tension between sensuality and duty, community and...