The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Author

Chyngyz Aitmatov

Published

1980

Language

rusca

The story of one day in which Yedigei, a worker at a railway junction in the Kazakh steppe, takes his friend to be buried. Through the legend of the "mankurt" — a man robbed of his memory — the novel gave the Turkic world a powerful symbol.

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