Language and literature
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.