And the day lasts longer

“And the day lasts longer than a century” - one of the most popular novels by Genghis Aitmatov.

The main character is Ediga, the switchman on the railway trip Boranly-Burannaya. On the sides of the railway in these harsh edges are vast steppes, and here, except for the protagonist, only his best friend - Kazangap lives. When Kazangap dies, Ediga decides to bury him in the old Ana-Bayite cemetery-“mother’s mother”-covered with many legends and legends. However, at the site of the cemetery, where many generations of his ancestors rest, the cosmodrome with the watch with a spaceship at the gate...

“and lasting longer than a century” is already built, a romance difficult in composition, in which myth and reality are interwoven, present and past.